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1688813025Code 7630 Aviation Pocket CompassSmall pocket compass, mahogany wood and brass, used by British aviation officers during the First World War, complete with compass card with eight winds with a goniometric circle and a compass needle lock for calculating horizontal angles.
Signed Barker & Son London made in 1918.
Good working condition.
Cm 7,7x7,7x3 - inches 3.1x3.1x1.4 (h).
F. Barker & Son was a British company founded in London in 1848 by Francis Barker (1820 1875) who began as an apprentice becoming a skilled precision mechanic acquiring a great reputation as a talented and creative craftsman arriving to buy the company of his former employer of work. This brand became famous for supplying precision instruments to Allied forces in Europe during both World War I and World War II.
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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