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1513689168Code 5394 Keuffel Esser compassKeuffel & Esser Co New York pocket compass, used by US Army officers during the First World War made of chromed brass shaped like a pocket watch. The compass is equipped with a snap-on lid with release button inside the ring. Very good condition and perfectly working. Diameter cm 4.5, height cm 1.3.
The Keuffel & Esser Co. company was a manufacturer of tools for design founded in 1867 by WJD Keuffel and H. Esser; the company began by selling tools for drawing and design in New York and then start selling, in 1876, surveying tools. In 1889 the company moved into new plant in New Jersey and in the ten years later it began to market new surveying instruments based on the studies of John Paul, an Italian immigrant. At the same time it also started the production of sextants, in agreement with the U.S. Navy. In the ’20s the company began to manufacture slide rules; during the Second World War it made fire tools for the U.S. government and it won three "Army-Navy E Award" for excellence in manufacturing.
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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