This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
. A grey painted aluminium corrector magnet holder. Magnets are held in base of tube and can be turned by a key inserted into holes at the side.
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Bare needle pocket compass in blue plastic case, with a screw operated needle lifter. The sixteen principal points of the compass are marked on base of bowl and are with graduations to 360 degs.Diameter 2" (5.1cm).
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Bearing plate
A heavy white metal ring graduated to 360 degrees on upper surface and edge. Fitted with a single cross member which has the alidade pivoted at its centre. The alidade sights consist of two hinged vanes; fore sight is a frame with sightin
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Bearing plate
A heavy white metal ring graduated to 360 degrees on upper surface and edge. Fitted with single cross member which has the alidade pivoted at its centre. The alidade sights consist of two hinged vanes; fore sight is a frame with sighting
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Bearing plate
A heavy white metal ring gradusted to 360 degrees on upper surface and edge. Fitted with single cross member which has the alidade pivoted at its centre. The alidade sights consist of two hinged vanes; fore sight is a frame with sighting
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Bowl-Dia 8.25" (21cm) Grey painted brass, filler plug and expansion chamber unsighted. Domed verge glass. Ungimballed.
Card- Dia.6.9"(17.5cm) White plastic ring with black markings, graduated to 360 degs attached by a plastic framework to crui
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Consists of a crude white painted wooden disc with a hole at the centre and two white fabric discs on which are marked various times and bearings, in ink.
For use with one-man torpedo riders.
1944
National Maritime Museum
. In 1944 Lt Col A T C Priddle, of the directorate of Tank Design, was certain that he could design a better compass than the Compass Department and this is the result. A small compass with a 0.5" (1.3cm) card is mounted at the top of a 27" (68.
1944
National Maritime Museum
. In 1944 Lt Col A. T. C. Priddle, of the directorate of Tank Design, was certain that he could design a better compass than the Compass Department and this is the result. A small compass with a 0.5" (1.3cm) card is mounted at the top of a 27" (
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Submarine liquid compass
Bowl: Black painted brass, the sides of the bowl form a bellows and act as a long expansion chamber. Glazed at both top and bottom. Inside of bowl black.
Card: Diameter 1.2" (3.0 cm) grey metal card with markings made b
1944
National Maritime Museum
. Tank compass part. The compass card has become detached from the pivot.
1944
National Maritime Museum