What happens when your magnetic compass starts spinning in the wilderness? Meet William Austin Burt, who took that as a cue to invent something new.

Special thanks to the Marquette Regional History Center for access to their library and solar compass exhibit!

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📚 Key sources used in researching this video:
Marquette Regional History Center staff
Burt’s solar compass manual: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJN3…
https://www.legislature.mi.gov/(S(rds…
https://www.mackinac.org/795
https://detroithistorical.org/learn/e…
https://archive.org/details/historyan…
https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/…

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