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'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company' [45r] (94/570)
The record is made up of 1 file (281 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1936-4 Oct 1939. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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2 -
It is neither our intention nor desire to make extensive observations,
but the reobserve the magnitude and direction of the earths magnetic
field at the same location exactly that ms observed dm Inarch 11, 1909,
and to determine in -what way and direction this field has varied*
The observation is somewhatcomplex as the instrument dent us by the
Carnegie Institution is relatively complex. The routine of the observation
takes about three or four hours with a little luck* Thus if nothing goes
wrong,as it well may do with a relatively complex and delicate instrument
one should be able to complete the observation in the course of one day.
The observation consists of the following steps:
(1) Determination of true north( axis of earths rotation) by observation
either of the pole star or the sun with a transit*
(2) Determination of magnetic north ( position of earths magnetie pole)
so that deviation from true north can be determined* True north was
determined in step (1)*
(3) Determination of magnetic dip; i* e* , how far a magnetic needle
deviates from the horizontal when it is free to rotate in a vertical
plane.
(4) Determination of Magnetic dip with an earth inductor compass (much as
is used to determine direction on RAF and imperial Airway^ planes)
which is much more sensitive and accurate than the dip needle.
(5) Measurment of the strength of the earths magnetic field at the point
of observation.
Steps 2, 3, and 4 determine uniquely the direction of the earths
magnetic field; step 5 determines the strength.
Paul H. Boots
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- Content
This file contains correspondence and documentation relating to the initiation of oil operations in Kuwait by the Kuwait Oil Company. The majority of the papers relate to operational matters from workers contracts, buoying and navigation, to plans for the construction of refineries.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (281 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 283; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 6-278; these numbers are also written in pencil but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/249
- Title
- 'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 20r:24v, 29r:29v, 31r:37v, 40r:57v, 69r:70v, 72r:78v, 80r:85v, 87r:90v, 92r:95v, 99r:99v, 102r:105v, 107r:109v, 125r:131v, 135r:135v, 137r:140v, 142r:149v, 151r:154v, 156r:158r, 158r, 159v, 159v:180v, 197r:198v, 200r:214v, 217r:244v, 246r:255v, 258r:258v, 263r:272v, 275r:275v, 277r:282v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence