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Objekt 4

Horseshoe magnet

Object description

Maker: Johannes Dietrich (1715-1758) ascribed

Basel, around the middle of the 18th century

five single steel magnets held together by brass plates and brackets, with anchor

in the collection since 1821

Deposit Institute of Physics of the University of Basel, Phys. 3/1.

Inv. 1986.440.

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