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Electromagnet   /ɪlˌɛktroʊmˈægnət/   Listen
Electromagnet

noun
1.
A temporary magnet made by coiling wire around an iron core; when current flows in the coil the iron becomes a magnet.





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"Electromagnet" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, made the highly important discovery that by winding a plain iron core with many layers of insulated wire, through which the electric current was passed, he could at pleasure charge and discharge the iron core with magnetic power. Thus Henry produced the electromagnet which was the beginning of the mastery by man of the subtle fluid. He also discovered that the intensity and power of the electric current were materially augmented by increasing the number of the series of battery ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne


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