Duchesne Courier | 1926-02-12 | Page 5 | The First Compass

The First st Compass While on the slopes of at Mount Ida In Asia Minor more than two thousand years ago a shepherd found foun that the shod Iron end of at his staff was clinging 1 nging to a stone He De also found many pieces of this strange stone scattered on the ground This hard black mineral minerai which Is Isan Isan an nn oxide of iron became known as stone Magnes as ns it was v found In a district called Magnesia l It is probable probable probable able that our word magnet is derived from the name No use use was made of the mineral for tor many centuries At last however a Chinese found that a n piece of at this stone hung on a thread always pointed point point- ed to the north and south This crude instrument was the father of at our modern compass A