Dry compass

Medieval · Household · 1300

TL;DR

Dry compass - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Dry compass - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Compass

Required Knowledge

  • Magnetism

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Dry compass:

Liquid compass Gyrocompass Galvanometer Theodolite

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction Path Dependence Adaptive Radiation

Related Inventions

Theodolite Liquid compass Galvanometer Compass Gyrocompass

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