Morton / Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird Dry Card Compass
name: label: maker
content: Morton, James
notes: label: Description
content: This compass bears twp inscriptions: "JAMES MORTON LIMITED SUNDERLAND" and "KELVIN, BOTTOMLEY & BAIRD LTD REGISTERED 16-20 CAMBRIDGE STREET, GLASGOW, PATENT No 22032 02." The Morton signature appears on the card. The Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird, Ltd. inscription on the heavy brass bowl refers to a firm that was in business, as such, from 1914 to 1965.
label: Description
content: Ref: T. N. Clarke, A. D. Morrison-Low, and A. D. C. Simpson, <i>Brass & Glass. Scientific Instrument Making Workshops in Scotland</i> (National Museum of Scotland, 1989), pp. 252-275.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335526
label: catalog number
content: 335526
label: accession number
content: 321714
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nautical Compass (Dry Card)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/4 in; 28.575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 11 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 28.575 cm