Magnetic Collection (#4)

CHINESE COMPASS. Magnetic compass developed in China around the 1st century A. D
CHINESE COMPASS. Magnetic compass developed in China around the 1st century A.D. A magnetized iron fish floating on water points south

Nikolai Surov, magnetic man
Nikolai Surov, a Russian man reputed to have paranormal magnetic properties. Here he is apparently attracting metallic objects. Photographed in 1990

British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Companys Offices
The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Companys Offices in Threadneedle Street, London, built in 1859. The Company was formed out of a merger between The Magnetic Telegraph Company

ICT 1900 COMPUTER
A man in a suit loads an Information and Communications Technology (I.T.C.) " 1900" magnetic tape computer in his " space age" minimalistic office

Magnetic Observations, c1895, (1897). From Farthest North, Vol. 1 by Fridtjof Nansen. [Archibald Constable and Company, London, 1897]

The first pivoted needle compass, c1269 (1956). From Epistola de Magnete the first treatise on magnets, written by French scholar Pierre de Maricourt (Petrus Peregrinus)

Use of the magnetic compass in map making, 1643. Diagram of the use of the compass by cartographers and surveyors. Bor (Borealis) is north and Aust (Australis) is south

Magnetism, 1600. A terrella or globe-shaped magnet with lumps of iron to represent mountains and showing the north-seeking property of a magnetic needle. From De Magnete by William Gilbert

A magnetized needle pushed through a ball of cork, floating submerged in a goblet of water, 1600. The needle shows the dip and the direction of the magnetic pole. From De Magnete by William Gilbert

Magnetism, c1850. Educational plate showing various aspects of magnetism and electromagnetism including a dip needle, compass, the lifting power of an electromagnet (12), Wheatstone telegraph (13)

Behaviour of a magnetic compass, 1643. If a compass in a box is carried round a globe-shaped magnet (N, centre of picture) with magnetic poles where lines cross (left and right of N)

Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880). Oersted (1777-1851) observing that electric current has an effect on a magnetic needle

A Diagram of the Magnetic Observatory at Abinger Common
Inner workings of the new magnetic observatory at Abinger Common. 1927

Compass. 19th-20th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Cooke / Wheatstone Telegr
The discovery of current by Volta in 1800 and the electro- magnet in 1824, led to the invention of the magnetic telegraph. This is Cooke and Wheatstones 5-needle machine. Date: 1837

Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal
Steel Cracker Ball released by electromagnet to crush scrap metal Date: circa 1920s

Can t Help Lovin that Man! by Helen McKie
A red-haired woman staring into the eyes of her lover - a magnetic but dangerous looking Apache man, an allegedly savage member of the Parisian underworld haunting areas such as Montmartre

ARAGO, Fran篩s (1786 - 1853). French physicist, astronomer and politician. Oil

Magnetic mine and counter moves by G. H. Davis
A battle of wits: the magnetic mine and the counter-moves, a battle of wits: new types of mines countered by the Navy. Naval experts versus the enemy

Locating true magnetic North Pole by G. H. Davis
The locating of the true magnetic North Pole: an RAF discovery. Illustrating the 17, 720-mile polar expedition of the British Lancaster Aries and her crew. Date: 1945

Magnetic mine by G. H. Davis
The German magnetic mine: the first diagrams of its working and the methods by which it is laid. Diagrams showing the delicate electrical mechanism which reacts to the weak magnetic field set up by a

Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine 1849
SHjorth (1801- 1870), Danish inventor Hjorths electro-magnetic motive engine. The motor was a significant development from earlier electro-magnetic engines

Electro magnetic power machine engraving 1895
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Ein Nachschlagewerk des allgemeinen Wissens, 5th edition 17 volumes Bibliographisches Institut - Leipzig 1895-1897

Marine compass

Magnetic crust, forming new mid-oceanic ridges, cross section

Aurora borealis over Skagsanden beach on Lofoten Islands, Norway, March 2016

A brilliant star sends out magnetic waves out into surrounding space

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The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Companys Offices, Threadneedle Street

Pixiis magneto-electric machine

Foucaults switch

Wildes magneto-electric machine

Oersted discovers the deviation of a magnetic needle by a closed electric current (1820)

Calculating Longitude with the Declination of the Sun, plate 17 from Nova Reperta
XJF448290 Calculating Longitude with the Declination of the Sun, plate 17 from Nova Reperta, engraved by Philip Galle, c.1580-1605 (engraving) by Straet

ISOGONIC MAP, 1888. Isogonic map showing the lines of magnetic declination in the United States, 1888

Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, London - Magnetic Clock Date: circa 1910s

Picture No. 10774531
Fish Tank - magnetic cleaning Date:

Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) British physicist and chemist. Photography (bromide paper): Incandescent light bulb. Here a Royal Society Conversazione, 8 May 1889

Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) German physicist. Discovered effect of electric on a magnetic needle. Engraving c1870

Magnetic needles on a terrella will point towards the north pole, A. other needles will do likewise, even though the surface of the terrella is uneven, as at O

A magnetized needle pushed through a ball of cork, and floating submerged in a goblet of water, shows dip and the direction of the magnetic pole. From William Gilbert De Magnete, London 1600

Apparatus used by the Curies to investigate the deflection of the beta rays from radium (R) in magnetic field. Engraving published Paris 1904

Hans Christian Oested (1777-1851) German physicist. Discovered effect of electric on a magnetic needle. Engraving c1870

Behaviour of a magnetic compass in a box if carried round a globe-shaped magnet (N centre of picture) with magnetic poles where lines cross (left and right of N)

A terrella or globe-shaped magnet with lumps of iron to represent mountains and showing the north-seeking property of a magnetic needle. From William Gilbert De Magnete, London, 1600

Map making and surveying using a magnetic compass. Bor is north and Aust is south. From Athanasius Kircher Magnes: sive de arte magnetica, 1643. Woodcut

William Gilbert (1540-1603) English physician and scientist born at Colchester, Essex. Appointed physician to Elizabeth I (1601)

Rasputin (ja1871-1916) Russian peasant, holy-man and mystic, surrounded by some of the women drawn by his magnetic personality

Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) German physicist, discovering that electric current has an effect on magnetic needle. Wood engraving c1880

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