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An important improvement in the mariners' & surveyors' compass needles : whereby means are found to so modify the magnetic and electric fluids, as to take up local attractions, and to correct the derangements of the needle, and settle it instantaneously to its polarity

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1832.
Call number: 711632
Creator: Smith, M(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 23 cm
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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