Excerpt from Joseph Henry's Record of Experiments Book 3 (May 8, 1843)
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Creator: Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
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Date: January 19, 1844
Citation: Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 6, The Princeton Years: January 1844-December 1846 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1992), 377-378
Record of experiments of Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, January 19, 1844. In the record, Henry describes tests he conducted to determine the lifting power of a large magnet he had constructed in 1833. The magnet was able to lift 3500 pounds.
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January 19, 1844
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