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Description: Photo of an industrial electromagnet lifting some scrap iron, from around 1914. The wires supplying the magnet with current can be seen emerging from its top. Alterations to image: removed figure number, cropped image into rectangular shape, brightened.
Title: Industrial lifting magnet
Credit: Downloaded August 12, 2008 from Cyril M. Jansky (1914) Elementary Magnetism and Electricity, McGraw-Hill, USA, p.56, fig.44 on Google Books
Author: Cyril Methodius Jansky
Permission: Public domain in the USA - published in the USA prior to 1923
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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