The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Floating the Magnet.

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Floating the Magnet.

--For some time past it has been found that there were great advantages in floating the magnetic index-card of a ship's compass on a liquid, instead of supporting it on a pivot. It has now been proposed by M. Santi, a manufacturer at Marseilles, to employ glycerine for this purpose. This succeeds admirably; the great oscillations caused in the compass-card by the vibration of the screw in steamers are almost.

The Daily Dispatch: February 9, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond, Va. February 9, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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