Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376
s able to stand upon the water, we might firsttry the experiment of making a needle float. Almost every boy has, in his time, made aneedle float upon the surface of clear watercontained in an ordinary tumbler. It is cer-tain that the needle does not float owing to anybuoyancy of the steel itself,…
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