James Warburg invents a naval aircraft compass

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• The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family whole source · open book

  While waiting for combat duty, the versatile Ensign Warburg invented a magnetic compass for use in naval aircraft. Jimmy only learned of his father’s behind-the-scenes maneuver in the autumn of 1917 when he went to his parents to discuss his upcoming engagement to the non-Jewish Katharine Faulkner Swift.

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