A compass is something that is able to line up with the Earth's magnetic field.

A compass is something that is able to line up with the Earth's magnetic field. It points north from anywhere in the world. Believe it or not, a Chinese magician named Luan Te invented the compass 2000 years ago. We use the same principles when making compasses today as folks did when they were invented.

Luan Te invented the compass by means of accident. He had a metal spoon that in some way always spun around on its cylindricaled bottom to point north. His spoon was made abroad of something called "lodestone" which happens to be a magnetic iron ore institute in nature. Luan Te realized that

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