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Liquid compass card
Liquid compass
Card: A mica band 1.75" (7.7 cm) wide. The card is grey with black markings graduated to points and 0 - 360 in degrees. There is a second set of degree graduations which are set 180 degrees out from the first and are inverted.
Needle: The eight square bar needles, in four pairs, are in two sets, one above the other and are all held inside the opened float.
Pivot: There is no pivot.
Card: A mica band 1.75" (7.7 cm) wide. The card is grey with black markings graduated to points and 0 - 360 in degrees. There is a second set of degree graduations which are set 180 degrees out from the first and are inverted.
Needle: The eight square bar needles, in four pairs, are in two sets, one above the other and are all held inside the opened float.
Pivot: There is no pivot.
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0877 |
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| Type: | Liquid compass card |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Doignon, L. |
| Date made: | 1928 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 50 mm; Diameter: 105 mm |