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| Ships' Compass Binnacle |
The compass was invented in China; the earliest recorded use of lodestone as a direction finder was in a 4th century Chinese book: Book of the Devil Valley Master. The compass is considered one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China. The effect of non-ferromagnetic materials is corrected by the two iron balls mounted on either side of the compass binacle.
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