Authentic Models Wwii Compass
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Why buy from Pavilion Broadway?
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The Authentic Models WWII Compass is antique science and history captured in vintage-style aged bronze. It is a replica of a small World War Two compass, and would make the perfect gift for lovers of nautical, scientific or technological history.
Exploration and Innovation
Through hundreds of years of technological innovation, sailers managed to chart the entire world. By inventing a magnetized needle rotating on a vertical pin, pointing at the Earth's magnetic North, 16th century sailors accustomed to following coastlines, could suddenly cross oceans. Set sail for the fabled Spice Islands, legendary Cathay, or even the rumoured South Lands with the instrument of exploration that allowed sailers to cross vast seas, and explorers to discover new continents. The compass truly was the implement that changed the world, forever...