Accession No

2167

Brief Description

artillery director, by Kern and Company Ltd., Swiss, 1916

Origin

Switzerland

Maker

Kern and Company Ltd.

Class

military

Earliest Date

1916

Latest Date

1916

Inscription Date

1916

Material

metal (alloy, brass); glass; wood

Dimensions

box length 470mm; breadth 220mm; height 232mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 05/1969.

Inscription

‘DIRECTOR No5 Mark 1 No 2196
W. CRUCHON LONDON
Made By KERN & CO LTD Switzerland 1916’

Description Notes

Metal alloy. Black finish. Horizontal circle graduated 0-180-0. Half in black finish and half in brass to indicate left and right of target. Clamp and slow motion screw. Micrometer screw to 5’. Trough Compass. Pair of small bubbles with mutually perpendicular axes. Pillar support for telescope. Folding slit sights over telescope. Bubble on side adjusted by elevation screw and scale graduated 10-0-10o. Elevation and depression. Hinged mirror over bubble. Vertical quadrant on side of telescope graduated 50-0-50o. Elevation and depression. One side black the other brass. Adjusted by micrometer. Bubble in apex. Fitted wooden box with care instructions label. Clamp and slow motion screw controls instrument on tripod. Spare eyepiece.

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