Authentic Models Lewis & Clark Compass

The Lewis & Clark Compass by Authentic Models is antique science and history captured in vintage-style aged brass and a lightly distressed rosewood box. The perfect gift for lovers of nautical, scientific or technological history, it is small wooden replica of the compass used by Lewis and Clark, the great explorers who journeyed across America in the 1800s.

Exploration and Innovation

Set sail for the fabled Spice Islands, legendary Cathay, or even the elusive South Lands with the instrument of exploration that allowed sailers to cross vast oceans, and explorers to discover entirely new continents. Through hundreds of years of technological innovation, sailers managed to chart the entire globe. By inventing a magnetized needle rotating on a pin, pointing at the Earth's magnetic North, 16th century sailors accustomed to following coastlines, could suddenly cross oceans. The compass truly was the implement that changed the Renaissance world, forever...