The Child's Book of Nature for the Use of Families and Schools Intended to Aid Mothers and Teachers in Training Children in the Observation of Nature. Revised Edition. Part 3: Air, Water, Heat, Light, etc. (1886)
also, you can take up with it a great many needles, and if it be a large piece of the ore, it will hold up a very heavy weight. This power which the loadstone has we call magnetism. Xow this power in the loadstone can be communicated to iron and steel. If a loadstone be moved along in a particular…