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Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass.
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Fitted with brass verge ring, gradusted to 360 degrees anti-clockwise. A moveable course indicating pointer is fitted to verge ring. Inside of bowl painted white, a red lubber line is painted on the foreside. Mounted in a black metal gimbal ring attached to a U shaped bracket which has a mounting bracket at the base.
Card: White painted mica with black markings graduated to 360 degrees attached to white painted float at centre. The float has a red line running from the centre to N point.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
Mounted on a wooden stand. Diameter 4.25" (10.8 cm)
O.A. Height 4.75" (12.1 cm)
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Fitted with brass verge ring, gradusted to 360 degrees anti-clockwise. A moveable course indicating pointer is fitted to verge ring. Inside of bowl painted white, a red lubber line is painted on the foreside. Mounted in a black metal gimbal ring attached to a U shaped bracket which has a mounting bracket at the base.
Card: White painted mica with black markings graduated to 360 degrees attached to white painted float at centre. The float has a red line running from the centre to N point.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
Mounted on a wooden stand. Diameter 4.25" (10.8 cm)
O.A. Height 4.75" (12.1 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0577 |
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| Type: | Liquid compass - aircraft |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Vion, E |
| Date made: | 1914-18; 1914-1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 121 mm x 155 mm x 135 mm |