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Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass
Bowl: Black plastic, filler plug and bubble trap and corrector magnets mounted in horizontal wheels at top, expansion chamber? on fore side. Mounted on aluminium bracket by three rubber-bushed bolts, one on each side and the other at the back.
Card: Black rim with luminous markings, graduated to 360 degrees.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted
O.A. Height 5.5" (14.0 cm)
Bowl: Black plastic, filler plug and bubble trap and corrector magnets mounted in horizontal wheels at top, expansion chamber? on fore side. Mounted on aluminium bracket by three rubber-bushed bolts, one on each side and the other at the back.
Card: Black rim with luminous markings, graduated to 360 degrees.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted
O.A. Height 5.5" (14.0 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0843 |
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| Type: | Liquid compass - aircraft |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Unknown |
| Date made: | circa 1940 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 120 mm x 120 mm x 130 mm |
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