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2812015162558734Code A102 Timer for pigeons competitionsIt is a clockwork mechanism that moves in rotation a disk or a chain that measures the time: at the passage of the pigeon it happens a punching and the time is signalled on the disc, determining with precision the winner. Made in Belgium at the end of the XIX century, signed INVENDIGE DOLO METER n. 2999. Measures cm 21x16.
The carrier pigeon can fly at a speed of 50-100 km / h in a day and he can travel considerable distances, up to 1000 km. Even today in many countries they breed these birds and competitions are held for speed and orientation with routes of several thousand kilometers.
It is thought that the brains of pigeons is equipped with special molecules that are affected by the different Earth's magnetic field enabling them to recognize the place of their origin. This capability was known since ancient times (2000-3000 BC): in fact the pigeons were used both as important carriers of information, and as carrier of useful knowledge, for example, to kings, emperors and leaders (including Julius Caesar during the war of Gaul) to change military strategies etc.
In more recent times, it is said that Julius Reuter, who founded in the nineteenth century the still well-known agency Reuters International News, at the beginning used as postal messengers some carrier pigeons.
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