When was the compass invented, date and year?
An early form of the compass was invented in China around 1044. The familiar mariner’s compass was invented in Europe around 1190[1], from whence later originated the liquid magnetic compass. Fundamentally, the classic compass is any magnetically sensitive device able to indicate the direction of the magnetic north of a planet’s magnetosphere. Often compasses are built as a stand-alone sealed instrument with a magnetized bar or needle turning freely upon a pivot, or floating in a fluid, thus able to point in a northerly and southerly direction.
