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Making marine instruments

Saidman

National Science and Media Museum

National Science and Media Museum
Bradford, United Kingdom

Photograph showing Miss Renee Elliott, Mrs. Ena Key and Miss Ivy Harman. Renee Elliott is holding an old sextant (two or three hundred years old) made of ebony. Others hold marine sextants. Miss Harman has been with the firm for 9 years. She engraves on limbs of the Taylor-Hobson marine sextants. Renee Elliott see above. Mrs. Key previously a capstan operator now assembles small parts on to the sextant itself.

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  • Title: Making marine instruments
  • Creator: Saidman
  • Date Created: 1942-05-30
  • Location: England, United Kingdom
  • Rights: © Mirrorpix
  • Maker: Weekly Illustrated/Illustrated
National Science and Media Museum

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