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Spirit Level, English?, c. 1700
Object is on display.
Inventory Number:	22764
Object Type:
Place Created:	England United Kingdom Europe
Accession Number:	1925-43
Brief Description:	English? spirit level, with with velvet-lined fish-skin covered case. Brass and glass level, filled with pink fluid; Unsigned and undated; c.1700 The base-plate rests on two bosses at one end, and on the point of a levelling-screw at the other. A pointer is attached to the screw and moves over a graduated scale. Two similar triangles are engraved on the base plate at the side of the level. The sides of one triangle are marked 8 and 150, and are exactly 1/3rd the length of the other sides, marked 24 and 450.
Primary Inscriptions:
Provenance:	Lent by Christ Church, Oxford in 1925.
Collection Group:	Orrery Collection
Dimensions:	Height Width Depth Diameter Unit 228 mm
Narratives Inventory no. 22764 - Former Display Label A group of practical and mechanical instruments Former Display Label - The Orrery Collection of Scientific Instruments Former Display Label - The Principal Makers of Instruments in the Orrery Collection Orrery Collection: 1731 Inventory Accession Record : Extract from Annual Report for 1925 Orrery Collection in print

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