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In this chapter the ancient device to find the orientation are presented. The oldest one was the sundial compass. Despite it was the oldest type of compass, it was still used during the II WW and on the Mars Exploration Rovers. Then the famous Chinese South pointing Charriot is shown and finally the first examples of the magnetic compass.
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Rossi, C., Russo, F. (2017). Orientation. In: Ancient Engineers' Inventions. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44476-5_5
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