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Magnets

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Magnetism
Magnetics

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Images from the collections

Images about Magnets

3 images from works
  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • A postcard illustrating a young couple surrounded by a variety of good luck charms. Process print.
  • CROKER: Dictionary of Arts and Science

Works from the collections

8 works

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    Specvlvm lapidvm / Camilli Leonardi. Cvi accessit Sympathia septem metallorum ac septem selectorum lapidum ad planetas. D. Petri Arlensis de Scudalupis.

    | Camillo Leonardi | Date: 1610
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    Fatal attraction : magnetic mysteries of the Enlightenment / Patricia Fara.

    | Patricia Fara | Date: 2005
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    On the employment of the magnet and electro-magnet in the removal of iron & steel fragments from the interior of the eye / by Simeon Snell.

    | Simeon Snell | Date: [1881]
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    Improvements in magnets and in magnetic garments or clothing for the prevention, relief and cure of disease of the human body also applicable to the bodies of animals : provisional specification.

    | Carron, Grantham | Date: 1884
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    CROKER: Dictionary of Arts and Science

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