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Abney's Clinometer and Case, English, c. 1930

Inventory Number 68600


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.68600

Item type
Object
Provenance
Purchased.
Primary inscriptions
Unsigned and undated.
Object type
Clinometer
Inventory No
68600
Accession Number
1986-20

Description

Copper alloy clinometer, with a rectangular tube painted black and a silvered scale on a rectangular plate of 90°- 0°- 90°, with a vernier divided to 10 minutes and a magnifier loupe (with its lens missing), and a bubble tube level. The eyepiece is retractable. The instrument is in a brown leather carrying case with a metal fastening.