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Tilting-Plate Compensators

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THE various communications describing ingenious modifications of the tilting-plate compensator which have appeared in Nature in recent months suggest that a rather different form, which I improvised from a pair of selenite plates, might be of some interest, particularly as the special materials mentioned by previous contributors are not always immediately available.

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  1. Nature, 162, 454 (1948).

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SMITH, F. Tilting-Plate Compensators. Nature 163, 442–443 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163442b0

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