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NavigationResearch . This new type of compass was developed for the Army Air Service in by Doctors Paul Heyl and Lyman Briggs of NBS The conductor consisted of crossshaped armature carrying closed coil of wire which was rapidly revolved in the magnetic field of the earth thus generating current the intensity of which depended upon