Replica Dry-Card Compass

Object/Artifact

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Maritime Museum of San Diego

Name/Title

Replica Dry-Card Compass

Entry/Object ID

2013.017.001

Description

Replica early-sixteenth-century dry-card compass mounted on brass gimbals and housed in a turned wooden bowl with lid. For display on the San Salvador.

Collection

Instruments Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Craven, Newton

Date made

2011

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Compass

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Navigational Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Surveying & Navigational T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 05: Tools & Equipment for Science & Technology

Material

Wood, Brass, Cardboard