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1528473466Code 6073 Compass 1910Magnetic compass, made of brass, signed Plan Neuchatel Switzerland, probably made for the Swiss army in the years before the First World War. It is a small brass travel compass with a cover, compass card with four winds and goniometric circle of engraved and chromed brass, complete with the needle block for the calculation of the horizontal angles. Excellent condition fully functional. Diameter 5 cm - 1.96 inches, thickness 1.5 cm - 0.59 inches.

Plan Ltd was a Swiss company founded in 1854, that also built mirror compasses for the U.S. armed forces during WWI.

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.

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