The History of the Magnet

by Winston

November 17, 2002

There's a legend that a sheperd whose name was Magnes. While he was on the slopes of Mount Ida, his sandel with iron nails was stuck to a big black stone. It is a fact that certain stones could attract to iron. As time passes by another discovery was found. The discovery was that iron that was rubbed against magnetic stones, made them magnets. A final discovery is that during Queen Elizabeth's time, that every magnet has two definite poles, which are opposite in nature.