- Subject
- Electronic instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Elliott Brothers
- Provenance
- Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003.
- Primary inscriptions
- 'Elliott Brothers.'
- Object type
- Electronic instrument
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 69mm Height: 36mm Weight: 0.3kg
- Inventory No
- 12939
- Accession Number
- 2003-11
Description
Box Sextant, Two paper discs with notes regarding tangents in leather case.
Contents of case are the following: Sextant base, with dial and magnifier. Scale range from 0-150; Sextant lid, metal, with handle to top; Paper note in form of protractor. Scale 1-180 on one side. I. Inch scale 10-0-0-10 on the other side; Paper note, disc shaped. One side has listed figures titled 'Natural Tangents to a Base of 100', the other side notes and equation and a table featuring multiplier and angles; Leather case for box sextant and paper notes. Case has cream stitching, flip open lid and leather strap with buckle fastening.
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