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Title: Brass course plotting instrument Accession Number: 2007.12.12 Category: INSTRUMENTS Type: Navigational instrument Maker: Elliott, George Place: Date: before 1862 Materials: brass; wood Description: Navigational instrument; Brass course plotting instrument; from the collection of George Elliott (1810-1862); prototype of an instrument meant to be used for plotting courses on charts, as invented and constructed by George Elliott himself; instrument appears to be a combination of something similar to a parallel rule and a protractor, is made of brass, and housed in a wooden box.

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