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Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass- (Pfadfinder Armee Kompas)
Bowl: Cylindrical bowl with a curved window at front to view vertical section of card. Verge ring is graduated 0 - 360 by 10 degree divisions in an anti-clockwise direction. There is a course setter, painted red, on the top glass. A lubber wire on front window and painted on inside of bowl which is white. Below bowl is a spindle which carries two sets corrector bar magnets, housed in a perforated cage. A lead seal on base of bowl. Fitted into original wall bracket.
Card: A white painted metal card with both horizontal and vertical graduations. Both planes are graduated to the four cardinal points and 0 - 360 degs by 10 degree divisions.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
O.A. Height 11" (28 cm)
Bowl: Cylindrical bowl with a curved window at front to view vertical section of card. Verge ring is graduated 0 - 360 by 10 degree divisions in an anti-clockwise direction. There is a course setter, painted red, on the top glass. A lubber wire on front window and painted on inside of bowl which is white. Below bowl is a spindle which carries two sets corrector bar magnets, housed in a perforated cage. A lead seal on base of bowl. Fitted into original wall bracket.
Card: A white painted metal card with both horizontal and vertical graduations. Both planes are graduated to the four cardinal points and 0 - 360 degs by 10 degree divisions.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
O.A. Height 11" (28 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0561 |
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| Type: | Liquid compass - aircraft |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Plath, C. |
| Date made: | 1914-18; 1914-1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 279 mm x 185 mm x 225 mm |