Bamberg Liquid Compass
date: label: date made
content: 1915
name: label: maker
content: Bamberg
notes: label: Description
content: Liquid compass with a "CARL BAMBERG No 34717 BERLIN-FRIEDENAU GES. GESOH." and "Carl Bamberg Berlin-Friedenau 1915 Kaiserl Marine" inscription.
label: Description
content: Carl Bamberg (1847-1892) served an apprenticeship with Carl Zeiss at Jena and studied at the Universities of Jena and Berlin before establishing a "Werkstätten für Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik" in Friedenau, a suburb of Berlin, in 1871. After Bamberg died, the firm was managed by his widow and then by his son. It merged with the Centralwerkstatte Dessau in 1921, forming a new company known as Askania Werke.
label: Description
content: Ref: F. M. Feldhaus, <i>Carl Bamberg, Ein Rückblick auf sein Wirken und auf die Feinmechanik</i> (Berlin-Friedenau, 1929), p. 73.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Berlin, Berlin
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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.337139
label: catalog number
content: 337139
label: accession number
content: 1979.0361
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Nautical Compass (Liquid)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 5 3/8 in; 12.7 cm x 13.6525 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 6 in; 13.97 cm x 15.24 cm