Traveller's pocket instrument containing compass

Made:: 1851-1900 in Geneva

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Traveller's pocket instrument containing compass, thermometer and aneroid, by E.A. Ponzet, Geneva, 1851-1900

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Category:: Surveying

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: 1982-43

type:: compasses (direction indicators)

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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