The permanent magnet from Oberlin College at the right below has four laminations, and is also painted the traditional red.
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| Most early permanent magnets I have examined, both free-standing
and as part of magneto-electric machines, consist of several lamina of
thinner iron held together with rivets. This magnet in use at Kenyon College
at the left below is about 30 cm in length and normally has a keeper across
it; the keeper has a ring so that weights may be suspended from it to get
a measure of its strength. The iron must not have been very good, for I
often have to remagnetize the magnet before use. In the nineteenth century,
this was usually called a U-magnet.
The permanent magnet from Oberlin College at the right below has four laminations, and is also painted the traditional red. |
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| During a visit to the physics lecture demonstration apparatus collection at the University of Texas in Austin in January 2003, I saw this small stand with the label of James W. Queen of Philadelphia stamped on its upper surface. I was told that it was a holder for a bar magnet, thus reproducing the geometer of the horizontal electromagnet. |
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