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1300 BCE
Next Generation of the Compass
the first practical compass seems to have been made in Venice in 1274. It was a device supporting a magnetized needle over a card showing four or eight points of direction -
300 BCE
Invention of the compass
The compass was invented more than 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty -
same purpose different ways
The first model of the gyrocompass a type of non-magnetic compass was created by Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault in 1852 -
development
The first patent working model of the gyrocompass was awarded to Marinus Gerardus van den Bos in 1855, However, since his design was not practical for use on naval ships, the first usable design was provided by German inventor Herman Anschutz-Kaemfe in 1906 -
Transition
James Maxwell combined the electric and magnetic phenomena in a set of elegant field equations -
Finaly
we now have compasses on mobile phones and no longer need the originals we can still use them though. If we lose signal or get stranded somewhere
