It also had a shipbuilding industry and for a short time held the record for the largest ship launched. The compass is a dry ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north ... many ...

PHILADELPHIA, July 31. -- As the British ship Mohican made for the Delaware Breakwater to-day, according to the Captain and crew, it encountered a strange phenomenon. Capt. Urquhart says ...

If all the compasses in the world started pointing ... hundreds of times in our planet's history the polarity of the magnetic shield ensheathing the globe has gone from "normal," our current ...

But severe space weather can still tamper with magnetic equipment like compasses and the electrical grid. A solar storm may have pulled the ship's compass needle in the wrong direction ...

It also had a shipbuilding industry and for a short time held the record for the largest ship launched. The compass is a dry paper type mounted on a gimble for use on a ship. Captain Forrest could ...