Compass Collection

Tools used in carpentry and joinery
Various tools used in carpentry and joinery, including a vice, saws, chisels, a plane, pliers, a compass and a hammer

Compass Drill, Training Ship Arethusa, Greenhithe, Kent
A group of boys aboard the Training Ship Arethusa receiving compass instruction. The ship received boys aged 13-16 from a variety of poor backgrounds, including the workhouse

Compass Point, Bude, Cornwall, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Compass Rose
A compass rose

Map of Cyprus - The Island of Venus. circa 1930s

CRESQUES, Jafuda (1350-1410); CRESQUES, Abraham ( -1381). Catalan Atlas. 1375. Third and Fourth Leaves. Map of the world known in the 14th c. (Finisterre and the Mediterranean)

Feng-Shui Compass
FENG-SHUI Fong-choei compass used by Chinese geomancers to calculate the most propitious location of buildings etc

Christopher Columbus at La Rabida, 1872. By F. Adam
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Genoese navigator. Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida, 1872. Copy by F. Adam of the homonimous painting by Eduardo Cano de la Pena. Maritime Museum. Barcelona

Portolan chart, 1582. Map of the central part of the Mediterranean sea. Printed in Messina. Renaissance art. Miniature Painting

Carta marina (map of the sea). 1516. Facsimile
" Carta marina (map of the sea). 1516. Facsimile. Sea map described by Carlos Sainz in his work " The name of America". Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Americas Museum."

China. Han Dynasty (206 aC-220 BC). Invention

Compass

Ships Compass

Bathing Pool and Compass Point, Bude, Cornwall - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Radiograph used by Titanic officer Harold Godfrey Lowe
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Henry Hughes & Son boxed radiograph used by Fifth Officer Harold Godfrey Lowe. 10 inches. Date: early 20th century

Rare CGT Gerrer agent's calendar showing the ships of the line including the Ile de France. 9 x 14 inches

Ship's binnacle compass, speedometer, clock, knots
Ship's binnacle compass, brass ship's weighted speedometer, photographer's clock and a display case of ship's knots. Date: 20th century

Jack's Visit to Greenwich III - Father Thames, the Queen, needle and compass belonging to Captain Cook, Greenwich boys

Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583
United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583 (MSN 382-4545), at the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Airshow held at Boscombe Down on 10 June 1990. Date: 1990

Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1585
United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1585 (MSN 382-4547), at RAF Fairford on 18 July 1987. Date: 1987

Nassau, Bahamas - Map of the Island of New Providence. Date: circa 1950s

Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583
United States Air Force - Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call 73-1583 (MSN 382-4545), configured for command/control/communications jamming missions, on approach to RAF Mildenhall, in July 1997. Date: 1997

Lockheed F-104G Starfighter D-8127
Koninklijke Luchtmacht - Lockheed F-104G Starfighter D-8127, of 306 Squadron, on the compass swinging platform, having a compass swing. Date: circa 1972

Clock in marble and ormolu, made by Vulliamy, with the Young Geographers boys holding compass and sextant. Medallion of the Three Graces. Chromolithograph by W

Discomedusae jellyfish species
Discomedusae jellyfish: lions mane jellyfish, Cyanea annasethe 1, 2, Floresca species 3, and compass jellyfish, Chrysaora hysoscella 4

Dipping needle compass made by Edward Nairne, 1772
Dipping needle compass made by Edward Nairne for the Board of Longitude based on plans for the Reverend John Mitchell, Rector of Thornhill, 1772

Plans and views of magnetic compasses with dipping needles
Plans and views of magnetic compasses, including the dipping needle built by Dr. John Lorimer (1732-1795), surgeon, mathematician, politician and cartographer

Plans and views of a magnetic variation compass, early 19th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature

Plans and views of magnetic compasses, including one nautical compass set on a gyroscope. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal

Plans and views of a variety of magnetic compasses. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees

FENG-SHUI COMPASS
FENG-SHUI Fong-choei compass used by Chinese geomancers to calculate the most propitious location of buildings etc. Date: 1912

Group photo, Masonic Lodge, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Group photo, Rock of Gwalior Masonic Lodge, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1930s

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446). Statue
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446). Architect and engineer Italian Renaissance. Statue Florence. Italy

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Physicist, Italian mathematician and astronomer. Galileo demonstrating his astronomical theories. Engraving by Rico in the Spanish and American Illustration (1884)

London Trade Card - Henry Sidgier, Carpenter
London Trade Card - Henry Sidgier, carpenter, joiner and undertaker, near Temple Bar. 18th century

Gallieni, Colonial Administrator and Island of Madagascar
Map of the (then) French Overseas Territory, the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean - with inset portrait of Joseph Simon Gallieni (1849-1916)

A compass rose. 18th century
A compass rose. Used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions: North, East, South and West. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Old navigational instruments. Compass and sextant. 19th-20th
Old navigational instruments. Compass and sextant. 19th-20 th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

TS Arethusa - Compass instruction
Boys receive compass instruction aboard the training ship Arethusa, moored at Greenhithe, Kent Date: 1917

Masonic tools. Drawing. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 du Grand Orient de France et de la Franc-Ma篮 nerie Europ饮 ne

Officers compass, WW1
Officers compass manufactured by Dennison, Birmingham, with broad arrow, dated 1917. Date: 1917

Nautical atlas (1436) of Andrea Bianco. Study of the cardinal points. ITALY. Venice. Biblioteca nazionale marciana (St. Marks Library)

Oersted Experiment 2
Christian Oersted, at the university of Copenhagen, discovers the deviation of a compass needle when subjected to an enclosed electric current

Gerardus Mercator
GERARDUS MERCATOR Known also as Gerhard Kremer Flemish cartographer

Portolan of Joan Martines (16th century). American west coas
Portolan of Spanish cartographer Joan Martines (16th century). Majorcan school. American west coast (Peru, Ecuador and Colombia). 1587 Messina, Sicily

Clergyman measuring the circumference of a star with a great compass. Capital letter. Miniature. Liber Derivationum. 13th century. Castle of Chantilly. France

Mining. Surveying by the mines compass. Diorama. Deutsches Museum. Munich. Germany

Vintage telescope, sextant and quadrant. 18th century
Old navigational instruments. Vintage telescope, sextant and quadrant. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

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