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Description: | KMC.7.S. (Green and lloyd Catalogue number painted in white on the outside of the bowl). REGISTERED WBT (on Trade marke consisting of a circle dbisected sinusoidally which is stencilled on the inside of the bowl). LORD KELVIN'S SIR WM THOMSON PATENT No 7543 SOLE MAKERS KELVIN & JAMES WHITE LTD 18 CAMBRIDGE ST GLASGOW (Makers trade plate stencilled in black and red on the inside of the bowl) MANU Kelvin & James White Ltd Glasgow. circa 1900 16, 18 and 20, Cambridge Street, Glasgow, Scotland. DES THOMSON,William,Lord,1st Baron Kelvin of Largs. 1876 Glasgow, Scotland. This binnacle compass bowl was designed to hold a ten inch dry compass card on a platino-iridium needle supporting an aluminium nave whith a sapphire bearing. It is weighted with linseed oil to dampen its action when fitted into the binnacle on its knife edges. It was donated with GLAHM 113788 and both items were catalogued (Green and Lloyd) as one item although it is a composite . | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | SCIENTIFIC COLLECTION : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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