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Accuracy Collection

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Avebury / Stukeley Map

Avebury / Stukeley Map
A beautifully drawn overhead plan of the stone circles and embankment ditches at Avebury. Stukeleys accuracy is impressive, charting every stone, pasture and building

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Abraham-Louis Breguet

Abraham-Louis Breguet
ABRAHAM-LOUIS BREGUET French watchmaker, known for instruments of great accuracy

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Draughtsmen at work

Draughtsmen at work
Draughtsmen prepare technical drawings for an electronic wiring system, in a large open plan room, with plenty of essential natural light. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageAccuracy Collection: RAFs new gyro gun sight by G. H. Davis

RAFs new gyro gun sight by G. H. Davis
Details of the RAFs new gyro gun sight, which makes every fighter pilot an accurate marksman. By means of two simple adjustments in action

Background imageAccuracy Collection: SURVEYING LEVELS

SURVEYING LEVELS
A whole selection of different surveying instruments, and diagrams relating to their specific uses. Date: 1810

Background imageAccuracy Collection: WW1 - Whales mistaken for submarines

WW1 - Whales mistaken for submarines
The bodies of hundreds of whales, sharks, and other large fish, mistaken for submarines in the zealous hunt for German raiders, now lie strewn along the Atlantic coast

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Trial of the pix

Trial of the pix
The Trial of the Pyx has been in existence since 1282 and is responsible for ensuring the quality and accuracy of the UKs coinage. Date: 19th century

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Some types of model ships

Some types of model ships. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Tent Pegging at the Royal Tournament

Tent Pegging at the Royal Tournament
Tent-pegging at the Royal Tournament, the annual event when the best of the Armed Forces displayed their skills. Date: 1932

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Edward Cocker

Edward Cocker
EDWARD COCKER penman and mathematician whose name became a byword for accuracy - something that was according to Cocker was correctly done Date: 1631 - 1675

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Junkers Ju 87B -releases its bombs from low level with

Junkers Ju 87B -releases its bombs from low level with unerring accuracy

Background imageAccuracy Collection: WW2 poster, Be quick in your clearance of goods

WW2 poster, Be quick in your clearance of goods inwards to stores -- make lightning speed with accuracy your motto. Date: 1940s

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Menace of the U-boat by G. H. Davis

Menace of the U-boat by G. H. Davis
The deadly menace of the U-boat: the power and possibilities of Germanys underwater wolves. Some details of the operational methods of enemy submarines working in the Atlantic shipping lanes during

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Retoucher working on a colour separation positive

Retoucher working on a colour separation positive
A Retoucher working on a colour separation positive at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Surveying with a Compass

Surveying with a Compass
Surveying with a mounted compass

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Bombers of Zeppelin

Bombers of Zeppelin
In order to improve the safety and accuracy of airship bombing, bomb-aimers survey the landscape below the clouds by using a suspended car

Background imageAccuracy Collection: A theodolite, used for surveying

A theodolite, used for surveying

Background imageAccuracy Collection: Gambling / Roulette

Gambling / Roulette
To insure absolute accuracy of the roulette game, the roulette wheel on each table is tested each morning with a spirit level


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