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Description: | WHYTE & COMPANY ADJUSTERS OF COMPASSES GLASGOW (makers trade plate printed on the paper bezel of the card). N (north stammped on both nickel magnets). KMC.3 (green and Lloyd catalogue number in white paint on the box). MANU Whyte & Company, circa 1880 102,104 Dale Street or 144 Broomielaw, Glasgow, Scotland. This icompass has two parallel nickel bar magnets suspended below the card on a brass frame. The inertia of the system is largely devoled from its weight. N.B. GLAHM 105006 was numbered K.M.C.3. in error by D. Kelly 14th April 1981. Also the Green and Lloyd catalogue states in error that the card is nine inches in diameter. It is in fact 260mm or 9.75 inches. | 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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