What kind of Compass was used in World War 1?
A ninth one called the Usanite was also being utilized by the soldiers in WW1 and was marked ‘ENG. DEPT. U.S.A.’ (plus the year of production) on the lid. Moreover, Taylor produced like almost all other manufacturers of the moment a model consistent with the Mark VI design (examples: see Dennison , Terrasse ).
What was the patent for the Taylor compass?
– The four claims in the 1915 patent concern solely the shaping of an external case out a single sheet of metal and the assembling with an internal case (capsule) together with the crystal glass which presses the capsule’s lip against the external case rim (Fig. 2, details B, b1, b2).
What kind of Compass was the Taylor lumenite?
Taylor offered from 1918 on the Usanite, Ceebynite and Aurapole models in a 14 K gold-plated version, and also the Lumenite in the 1930s. Advertisement for the Ceebynite, on which the radium markings seem to glow in the dark. Open-face aluminum version. The radium markings were much smaller than on the US Army model.
Where did the name for a compass come from?
Apparently, the idea of giving the compass models funny names originated from the British manufacturer Short & Mason who had produced a marching compass called Magnapole although J. H. Steward was the first to call a compass Cbynite (without ‘ee’.
A ninth one called the Usanite was also being utilized by the soldiers in WW1 and was marked ‘ENG. DEPT. U.S.A.’ (plus the year of production) on the lid. Moreover, Taylor produced like almost all other manufacturers of the moment a model consistent with the Mark VI design (examples: see Dennison , Terrasse ).
– The four claims in the 1915 patent concern solely the shaping of an external case out a single sheet of metal and the assembling with an internal case (capsule) together with the crystal glass which presses the capsule’s lip against the external case rim (Fig. 2, details B, b1, b2).
Taylor offered from 1918 on the Usanite, Ceebynite and Aurapole models in a 14 K gold-plated version, and also the Lumenite in the 1930s. Advertisement for the Ceebynite, on which the radium markings seem to glow in the dark. Open-face aluminum version. The radium markings were much smaller than on the US Army model.
Apparently, the idea of giving the compass models funny names originated from the British manufacturer Short & Mason who had produced a marching compass called Magnapole although J. H. Steward was the first to call a compass Cbynite (without ‘ee’.
