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It was a combination of universal sundial and a magnetic compass. In time, different variants of compass were invented. Dry mariner's compass was invented in Europe in 14th century and …

Despite the simplicity of a compass, it took hundreds of years for it to be discovered and some more hundreds of years to be used for navigation instead as a magical artifact.

Picture Of Magnetometer Helium Vector Magnetometer (HVM) of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft The magnetometer measures magnetic fields in space and in the vicinity of Jupiter. …

Picture Of Magnetometer Coast And Geodetic Survey Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetometer No. 18. This magnetometer was used in the magnetic survey of Maryland conducted in the …

Manufacturing of compasses changed throughout the history from the simplest to the more complex. First compasses, made in China, were just lumps of lodestone, a naturally …

Picture Of Gyrocompass Gymnote 1889 The 1889 Dumoulin-Krebs gyroscope In 1889, Arthur Krebs added an electric motor of his own to the Dumoulin-Froment marine gyroscope, for the …

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Magnetic compass was invented in China between the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD, in the times when the Han dynasty ruled. It was used at first as a tool for geomancy - in feng shui, …

The creation of the first solar compass happened during 1833 when United States Deputy Surveyor William Austin Burt tried to survey unsuccessfully the territory of Michigan that was …