Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 568
lasted from A. D.319 to A. D. 35 1, we read,— The Chan^-Fang (president of the boardof works) ordered Kiai Fei, who was distinguished by his great skill inconstructing every kind of instrument, to build a number of magneticchariots, which were sent as presents to the principal grandees of… … 70 Mechanics Register. variety of ingenuity displayed by the architects was in balancing thefigure upon its pivot. The antiquity of these magnetic chariots is established incontroverti-bly; the step from them to the compass is so very easy, that we maysafely assert that the one must have led…
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