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Code 8011
EUR 600.00
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1738337265Code 8011 Pocket CompassPocket compass used by American Air Force officers from 1915 in brass in the shape of an onion watch, signed Ceebynite Short & Mason Taylor Rochester N.Y. The compass has a snap-lock lid with a release button inside the ring. Rose with four winds complete with protractor circle for calculating horizontal angles. Good condition, fully functional. Measurements 4.5x1.7 cm – 1.8x0.7 inches.
Taylor Instrument Companies was an American manufacturer located in Rochester, New York. The business began in 1851, when George Taylor and his partner Kendall made thermometers in Rochester, selling them from their truck. The company's name was changed in 1872 to Taylor Bros. and in 1900 it purchased Short & Mason (of London), founded by Thomas Watling Short and William James Mason in 1875 at 40 Hatton Gardens, London. For a short period of time Short & Mason made the Taylor line of compasses in England, but around 1915-1918 production was moved to the United States.
The first historical notes on the use of magnetic directive force in Europe date back to the end of the century. XII or at the beginning of the XIII and attribute the exploitation of the properties of the magnet to the Amalfitans. The news that they had invented the compass, given by the Panormite and repeated by Flavio Biondo, gave rise to the legend of a non-existent Flavio Gioia of Amalfi, who in 1302 built the first compass. The instrument would have spread in the Mediterranean and would then have been imported into the Nordic countries.
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