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Liquid Compass

Catalogue number:
PH*337139

Inscriptions:
"CARL BAMBERG N^o 34717 BERLIN-FRIEDENAU GES. GESOH." and "Carl Bamberg Berlin-Friedenau 1915 Kaiserl Marine"

Dimensions:
diameter 5.5 inches

Discussion:
Carl Bamberg (1847-1892) served an apprenticeship with Carl Zeiss at Jena and studied at the Universities of Jena and Berlin before establishing a "Werkstätten für Präzisions-Mechanik und Optik" in Friedenau, a suburb of Berlin, in 1871. After Bamberg's death, the firm was managed by his widow, and then by his son. Bamberg merged with the Centralwerkstatte Dessau in 1921, forming a new company known as Askania Werke.

Ref: F. M. Feldhaus, Carl Bamberg, Ein Rückblick auf sein Wirken und auf die Feinmechanik (Berlin-Friedenau, 1929), p. 73.

NACA Report #128

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