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I BEG leave to draw your attention to a contrivance that I think very suggestive, of improvements in getting up compasses for iron and wooden vessels. This I propose to effect by using glass globes with transparent needle-cards, and thus making a transparent mariner's compass, visible in all directions, that may be either supported or suspended by very simple and compact fittings wherever most convenient.
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FAWCUS, G. Transparent Compass. Nature 4, 366 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004366d0
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