- Subject
- Electronic instruments
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Elliott Brothers
- Provenance
- Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003.
- Primary inscriptions
- 'ELLIOTT BROTHERS / 56 Strand London'
- Object type
- Electronic instrument
- Dimensions
- Height: 90mm Width: 254mm Depth: 302mm Weight: 2.4kg
- Inventory No
- 12959
- Accession Number
- 2003-11
Description
This ebony octant has an ivory scale and vernier.The inlaid ivory scale runs from -5deg to 110deg, the vernier reads 0-20.
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