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		<title>USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: Compass</title>

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				<title><![CDATA[Gurley Dip Needle Lake Superior Model with Case]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_22_2009_j51Qi76Hgb_07_22_2009_40</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[Also known as a Forrester's Compass or Miner's Compass, a dip (or dipping) needle is an instrument for measuring the intensity of the earth's magnetic field. It is used to locate buried or hidden metal. Manufactured by W. & L.E. Gurley, Troy, New York. 
Object ID: USGS-000345]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Stadia Hand Transit with Case]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_22_2009_j51Qi76Hgb_07_22_2009_41</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[This instrument was manufactured by Keuffel & Esser Company, New York & New Jersey, serial #2300. Stadia Hand Transits are made of up a small telescope with cross and stadia hairs and a circular box which serves as either a magnetic compass or clinometer. The company sold these instruments from 1910 until the 1930s.
Object ID: USGS-000349]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Surveying Compass with Leather Case]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_20_2009_nsj7MYx43F_07_20_2009_0</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[The cardinal points are lettered N, W, S and E, graduated to degrees and numbered every ten degrees to 360. The connecting sights fold away for storage. Manufactured by Keuffel & Esser, New York.
Object ID: USGS-000162]]></media:description>
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			<item>
				<title><![CDATA[Surveying Compass with Leather Case]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_20_2009_nsj7MYx43F_07_20_2009_1</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[The cardinal points are lettered N, W, S and E, graduated to degrees and numbered every ten degrees to 360. The connecting sights fold away for storage. Manufactured by Keuffel & Esser, New York.
Object ID: USGS-000162]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Bow Compass with Case]]></title>
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				<media:description><![CDATA[Bow Compass with Case. Also known as a Drop Bow Pen or Spring Bow, serial #760 C. This instrument was made by Eugene Dietzgen & Company, Chicago and New York and used by the U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Branch after 1945-1960s.
Object ID: USGS-000645]]></media:description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Trough Compass with Case, 1916]]></title>
				<link>http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_20_2009_nsj7MYx43F_07_20_2009_16</link>
				<media:description><![CDATA[The storage case has a sliding lid. The compass is marked Troughton & Simms Ltd, London, 1916, No.9214. A trough compass is used with either a plane table or a theodolite. The needle is a long magnetized bar of steel which is pointed at both ends.
Object ID: USGS-000824]]></media:description>
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