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1435250060Code 4624 Compass TroughtonOld survey compass, brass with leather case, signed Troughton & Simms Ltd London, early 1900s. Diameter of compass cm 11.5 - inches 4.52, height cm 3.2 - inches 1.25. Very good condition and in order.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, a society of instruments makers became established as one of the best. The company was owned by two brothers, John and Edward Troughton, both suffered from a congenital color blindness, then they entrusted the part of the work on the optics to Dollonds or Tulleys. The Troughton firm gave his instruments to many major observatories in the world: Paris, Krakow, Brussels, Madras and Cadiz, and also it received several awards. Due to advancing age, Edward Troughton took William Simms in companies in 1826. Under the management Simms, Troughton & of Simms the company expanded, and Simms got the important task of building a theodolite for the exploration of India by Sir George Everest, during which he discovered the world's highest mountain region in 1852. The firm of Troughton & Simms remained in operation until 1922 when it merged with Thomas Cooke & Sons, forming the Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd.
The Greeks and the Romans didn't know the possibility to use magnetic fields for orient, but this possibility probably was known by the Chinese people: about in 2600 B.C. Hoang-Ti the emperor won Tchi-Yeou the prince using a magic cart, the See-Nan (cart indicating the South), finding the way of escape of the enemy that has been covered by smoke: on this cart there was a rotating human shaped figure with an arm stretched indicating the South (obviously indicating the North too, but the South was the most important cardinal point for the Chinese people). The Chinese people used magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they indicated south like a magic, amazing the public.
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