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12 Plates Armature arrange attractive force axis bar or wire BOX OF MAGNETIC bullets called the magnetic centre Charles Tomlinson COLOUR BOX compass needle Crayons curves Description and Diagram dipping needle direction Ditto ditto DRAWING BOOK Drawing Copies earth east experiment familiarly described fish fish's fleur-de-lis free to move Frigid Zone horizontal needle inches India-rubber Indian Ink iron and steel iron filings JOSEPH keeper knitting needle MAGIC LANTERN magnetic force magnetic intensity magnetic needle magnetic swan MAGNETIC TOYS mariner's compass marked E marked end meridian MODELS Move the needle MYERS name repel needle points needle that points needle will swing north and south north magnetic pole observe particles Pencils piece of iron poker poles of opposite Present the north price 10d Price 18 rection repulsion reverse the poles scale-pan Set-squares Sheets of Drawing show attraction shown in fig south pole swing round T-squares variation
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Page 47 - S. by W., SSW, SW by S., SW, SW by W., WSW, W. by S., W., W.
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Page 46 - NN w, north by west, and is marked N by w ; the point between NE and NNE is called north-east by north, and is marked NE by N, and so on, leaning for the designation towards the nearest of the four elementary cardinal points. Thus the point midway between E and ENE is termed east by north, and is marked E by N. In this way we arrive at...
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