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1481805174Code 5379 IWW compassSmall travel compass made of brass, for the US army during the First World War, shaped like a pocket watch, with a magnetic needle free to rotate on a horizontal plane marking the magnetic north direction. Signed Usanite Taylor Rochester 5379 N.Y 1915. Compass card with eight winds. Diameter 4.5 cm, inch1.7, thickness 1.2 cm, 0.3 inch. Very good condition.

The first hints in Europe on the use of instruments using magnetic fields for orientation are dated back to the late twelfth century, especially thanks to the knowledge brought by merchants and sailors after contacts with the Arabs: we find hints in the work by Alexander Neckam "De nominibus utensilium" and in the works by Guyot de Provins, where the magnet is called "sailor’s friend". Even the inventory of a Sicilian ship of 1200’s, the San Nicolò, refers to the presence on board of a magnet and a "bussola di ligno", that is a wooden compass.

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