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Description: | 705
Liquid compass
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl painted black. A fore-and-aft line is engraved across the slightly domed verge glass. The verge ring is fitted with a rotating setting ring which is graduated to 360 degrees.
Card: Diameter 3.1" (8.0 cm) Black card with a single large white painted pointer, attached to a high domed, white painted float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
O.A. Height 2.3" (6.0 cm)
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | liquid compasses | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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