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Subj: Magnetized Needles
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Magnetized Needles
Magnetized needles used as direction pointers instead of the spoon-shaped
lodestones appeared in the 8th century AD, again in China, and between 850 AD
and 1050 AD they seem to have become common as navigational devices on ships.
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