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1602155102Code 6700 Vintage compassPocket compass used by British aviation officers made of chromed brass in the shape of a pocket watch, complete with chain signed Dennison Birmingham VI 20634 of 1917. The compass is equipped with a lid with snap closure with release button on the inside the ring. Four-winds compass card complete with goniometric circle for calculating horizontal angles. In excellent condition, fully functional, diameter 4.5 cm, thickness 1.8 cm.

Aaron Lufkin Dennison (1812-1895) was a watch cases maker from late 1874 at 24 Villa Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, UK. He was previously the Managing Director of the American Waltham Watch Company in the USA, where he made the very first watch with interchangeable parts.

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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