By creating a pivot attachment to a needle with that metal on only one end, they could find north from any place they stood. While we automatically think of the compass as helping us find north by pointing to the North Pole, it actually doesn't work that way. This means the compass ...
1896), the first Catholic student club in North America (Newman Center, 1893), the first double-decker college football stadium (Franklin Field, 1924 when second deck was constructed), and Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The...
1. A method of marking an at least partially transparent game card including the steps of (a) superimposing said gaming card on a magnetic indicator board containing at least one magnetically responsive movable body, (b) applying a magnetic field in the vicinity of a gaming symbol on said gam...
5. The magnetic pickup of claim 1 wherein said magnetic means includes magnetically active material, said magnetically active material including permanent magnet material with north and south poles aligned substantially parallel to a proximate said linear string segment, said magnetically active material ...
Well, yeah, I can agree with you there, that the convention is confusing. It probably would have made more sense to use other terms that aren't related to geographical direction. But actually, what came first was people deciding that the end of a bar magnet which points north should be ...
I don't recall how this happened, but we were pulled out unto space amongst the stars, but it wasn't pitch black like one would expect it to be. space actually glowed a little with a myriad of stars all around us, but we kept getting pulled even farther and we passed a line of ...