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1525860483Code 5781 Royal Air Force compassPocket compass used by Royal Air Force officers during the First World War made of chromed brass shaped like a pocket watch. The compass has a snap-on cover with release button inside the ring. Compass card with eight winds complete with a goniometric circle to calculate horizontal angles. The lid is engraved: C. HASELER & SON Ltd Birmingham VI 7688 1918. Excellent working condition, diameter 4.5 cm - 1.77 inches, thickness 1.3 cm - 1.18 inches.

C. Haseler & Son Ltd. was a firm at 94 Bridge Street West, Birmingham, manufacture of photographic metalwork, specialized in spirit levels, view finders, etc.

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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