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Clockwork sun compass - aircraft
Clockwork sun compass
This is a very solid instrument with bearing plate and lock screw, latitude scale (north only) for tilting the dial plate, dial plate graduated in hours and also in degrees 0 - 180 in two semicircles and styles consisting of a cruciform slit and perspex target plate.
O plastic base: 6" x 4.25" x 0.25"
O.A. Height 7.9" (20 cm)
This is a very solid instrument with bearing plate and lock screw, latitude scale (north only) for tilting the dial plate, dial plate graduated in hours and also in degrees 0 - 180 in two semicircles and styles consisting of a cruciform slit and perspex target plate.
O plastic base: 6" x 4.25" x 0.25"
O.A. Height 7.9" (20 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0595 |
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| Type: | Clockwork sun compass - aircraft |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Unknown |
| Date made: | 1942 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 201 mm x 153 mm x 115 mm |
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