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Code 7552
EUR 600.00
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EUR 600.00
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1682694244Code 7552 Pocket CompassPocket compass for an English air force officer in use during the First World War, in chromed brass in the shape of an onion watch. The compass is equipped with a lid with snap closure with release button inside the ring. Four-winds rose complete with protractor circle for calculating horizontal angles. Very good condition, fully functional. Diameter 4.5 cm - 1.75 inch, thickness 1.3 cm - 0.45 inch.

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

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