This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_compass


00:00:36 1 Navigation prior to the compass
00:01:41 2 Geomancy and Feng Shui
00:03:53 3 Early navigational compass
00:05:17 3.1 China
00:12:29 3.2 Medieval Europe
00:15:53 3.3 Muslim world
00:19:25 3.4 India
00:20:02 3.5 Medieval Africa
00:20:33 4 Dry compass
00:22:00 5 Bearing compass
00:24:32 6 Liquid compass
00:27:49 7 Gyrocompass
00:29:00 8 Non-navigational uses
00:29:11 8.1 Astronomy
00:30:18 8.2 Building orientation
00:30:56 8.3 Mining
00:31:39 8.4 Sun compass



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SUMMARY
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The compass was invented more than 2,000 years ago. The first compasses were made of lodestone, a naturally magnetized ore of iron, in Han dynasty China between 300 and 200 BC. The compass was later used for navigation by the Song Dynasty. Later compasses were made of iron needles, magnetized by striking them with a lodestone. Dry compasses begin appearing around 1300 in Medieval Europe and the Medieval Islamic world. This was replaced in the early 20th century by the liquid-filled magnetic compass.