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Antique compasses/5428-Vintage compass MKIII
Antique compasses/5428-Vintage compass MKIII
Antique compasses/5428-Vintage compass MKIII
Antique compasses/5428-Vintage compass MKIII
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Antique compasses/5428-Vintage compass MKIII
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1501668165Code 5428 Vintage compass MKIIIPrismatic bearing compass signed 1944 Mk III. Very good condition, perfectly working. It is a small vintage compass typically used in sailing navigation, on boats less susceptible to magnetic deviation. It also can be hand held and then away from the boat magnetic fields. it has a sight system with optical prism for magnification and a goniometric compass card to measure the angle between the line of sight and the magnetic north indicated by the needle. Diameter 5.8 cm, height cm 2.5.

The use of a magnetic needle is described by the Arab scientist Bailak Al Qabajaqi: in 1242 during a travel from Tripoli in Syria to Alexandria the captain of the ship used it, putting in a pail with water a piece of cork with a needle and magnetizing it with a magnet; the needle moved immediately in the North-South direction.

Vintage compasses are measuring instruments that had always a large public of collectors, that choose them between all antique instruments.

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