Word: magnetically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands off the wheel. I was ready to grab and hold her, but the car stopped in a dead straight line as though snatched by a vast magnet...
Cruft boasts that with no outside aid its eight machanics have built a ten ton water-cooled magnet, a hydraulic press exerting a force of 70,000 atmospheres, a battery of 100,000 volts, hugh switch boards, five foot vacuum tubes and a unique short-wave radio station, WIZJ. A ninety-two ton magnet for unclear physics investigation is contemplated. The shops work all summer and have over 2000 parts in stock. Some eighty research men work with the Cruft and Coolidge machinery and mechanics, among whom are two expert glass-blowers...
Your Art article [TIME, Aug. 10] about Harvard's model forest says that the leaves were "etched out of paper-thin sheets of copper picked up with a magnet...
Neither Harvard nor anyone else has a magnet which attracts non-ferrous metal...
...tiny copper leaves are picked up by magnet because they are soldered on steel wire...