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Code 7903
EUR 1000.00
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1731771929Code 7903 Aviation CompassEnglish aeronautical compass in brass, glass and Bakelite, signed SMITHS Made in Great Britain Type KCA-1401K from the 1940s, and mounted on a wooden table. Diameter of the compass 11.5 cm - 4.5 inches. Base width 17 cm - 6.7 inches, total height 11 cm - 4.3 inches. Good condition, perfectly working. The compass consists of a cylindrical brass container, called a mortar, mounted on a cardan joint and complete with an adjustable protractor circle for calculating horizontal angles.
The company was founded in 1826 in London by Samuel Smith as a manufacturer and retailer of watches and chronometers, starting to produce a wide range of precision and high quality watches, in that period the most important customer was the English Admiralty . In 1907 the production of speedometers and engine accessories began, including carburettors, position lights, dynamos, starter motors, etc. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 contributed to broadening the market for the products offered and in 1915 the first contracts for airplane accessories arrived. It was necessary to create a separate department for aircraft which was called Smiths Aircarft Instrument which produced various instruments for the aviation and marine markets. The company is still active and employs 15,000 people. Producing electronic components for the aerospace, medical and industrial markets.
The first actual airplane saw the light of day in 1903, when the Wright brothers managed to fly - and keep in the air for 12 seconds - a kind of glider equipped with a 16 horsepower engine at Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina, USA. But the father of aviation is considered, by a part of the scientific and aeronautical community, to be Alberto Santos-Dumont, who during a flight held on 12 November 1906, managed to autonomously make a heavier-than-air device take off (the Wright brothers had instead used a sort of catapult to take off). The first Italian airplane was built by Aristide Faccioli in 1908.
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