Since its first documented use by the Chinese centuries ago, the magnetic compass has guided countless sailors safely across the seas. Though the compass allowed for the advent of modern navigation, ...

PARENT. IT PROVIDES DIRECTION. IT HELPS GUIDE YOU TO WHERE YOU’RE GOING AND REMINDS YOU OF WHERE YOU’VE BEEN. BUT WHERE DO COMPASSES THEMSELVES COME FROM? IF YOU THINK NEWPORT OR MARBLEHEAD OR SOME ...

Mackay Marine has acquired ChartCo’s Compass Services’ comprehensive magnetic compass business, effective October 9, 2019. This includes personnel, field service kits, compass calibration & repair ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This compass has a metal bowl gimbal ...

Recruits (left to right) Guy T. Hutches and Benjamin I. Smith find their next navigation is on the map during the Land Navigation Course at Edson Range. Recruits must find all five of their navigation ...

I had the pleasure to have lunch with four Marine officers at Fort Bliss, Texas, last week at the Army Network Integration Evaluation exercise, where they were testing a joint satellite-based command ...