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1506085550Code 4620 Dry compassDry compass mounted on universal joint signed Robert Merrill & Sons New York made in the second half of the XIX century and mounted on a walnut board. This compass has a brass cylindrical box, named mortar; on its bottom a hard metal stem is fixed, named sensitive element; on this element it is leaned a compass card with eight winds made of paper printed by engraving on copper plate. Good condition, perfectly working. Board cm 23.5x13.5 - inches 9.25x5.31, diameter of compass cm 14, total height cm 17 - inches 6.69.
Robert Merrill was an important nautical instrument maker in the U.S. in the mid-nineteenth century. The firm became Robert Merrill & Sons in 1865, and continued its business until 1923.
The invention of the compass is mysterious but it is well known that magnetite was discovered in Magnesia, a city of Asia Minor. We can find the first indications about the use in Europe of the magnetic force for orientation at the end of the XII century because of merchants and Arab navigators.
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Code 4620 Dry compass
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