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Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Three bar magnets in a box

Electro-magnet wound with copper strip

1876

Pair of Robison ball-ended magnets 80cm long

1900-1974

Pair of bar magnets

Horseshoe magnet

Pillar magnet

1700-1850

Small permanent magnet

Helical coils revolving round a magnet

1822-1856

Pair of 6-inch magnets and keepers, in mahogany box

Electro-magnet in mahogany box

1876

Model of cloud chamber magnet presented to Prof. P.M.S. Blackett, 1934

1957

Magnet from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance machine.

1954-1955

Salmson V.G. Magnet

Pair of bar magnets in box

Superconducting magnet (for travelling wave maser)

1966

Magnet bar

Pair of 12-inch magnets and keepers, in box

Battery of magnets

1750-1800

Pair of bar magnets

1828-1857

Set of six magnets on board

Set of six magnets on board

Steel horseshoe magnet, mid 18th century

1750-1780

Eclipse `Major' Alcomax magnet

1950-1980

Superconducting Magnet

1996-1997

Quadrupole magnet from the Tevatron accelerator, Fermilab

1980-1982

John Canton's magnets, made ca. 1750.

John Canton's magnets

1750

Circular permanent magnet with annular gap 1 3/8" to 1", part of Oliver Lodge’s microphone amplifier or relay, 1898 (British patent 9712 of 1898), a precursor of the moving-coil loudspeaker

Circular permanent magnet with annular gap 1 3/8" to 1"

Two magnet laminations from LHC dipole magnet.

Two Magnet Laminations

Compound horseshoe magnet, comprising eight individual magnets each 12 inches high and screwed together, with keeper

Compound horseshoe magnet

1900

Pair of bar magnets each about 75cm long , with keepers in fitted mahogany case

Pair of bar magnets each about 75cm long

1851-1900

Two colbalt-samarium magnets, each is a disc 1/2" diameter x 1/8" thick

Two colbalt-samarium magnets

1972

Electromagnet or self-inductance, consisting of a vertical solenoid mounted on a wooden base and fitted with a loose iron core

Electromagnet or self-inductance

Three large powerful ring-shaped permanent magnets formerly part of an eddy current demonstration

Three large powerful ring-shaped permanent magnets

1940-1959

Electromagnet of peculiar construction.

Electromagnet of peculiar construction

One of a group of seven small permanent magnets

Small permanent magnet

One of a group of seven small permanent magnets

Small permanent magnet

One of a group of seven small permanent magnets

Small permanent magnet

One of a group of seven small permanent magnets

Small permanent magnet

Three magnets in case (incomplete)

Three magnets in case (incomplete)

Early cobalt steel permanent magnet with mild steel pole pieces, for moving coil loud speaker

Early cobalt steel permanent magnet with mild steel pole pieces

Early cobalt steel permanent magnet for moving coil loud speaker (solid magnet steel)

Early cobalt steel permanent magnet for moving coil loud speaker

Fridge magnet, champagne glass shape, made by The Niche Ideas Company

Champagne glass shaped fridge magnet

circa 1997

fridge magnet, 'Wallace & Gromit' shape, made by Giftware International

Wallace & Gromit fridge magnet

circa 1997

Group of seven small permanent magnets

Seven small permanent magnets

Magnet, inscribed 'Yes we can', used to distinguish tin from steel cans, 1980s, made for ALCOA by Magnetic Novelties Co, Ellisville, Missouri, USA.

Magnet for distinguishing tin from steel cans

1980-1989

Horse shoe electro-magnet with armature

Horse shoe electro-magnet with armature

1876

Five compound horse-shoe magnets

Five compound horse-shoe magnets

Magnetic balance, Hibbert's patent 15821 of 1903, by W.G. Pye, Cambridge

Hibbert's Magnetic Balance by W.G Pye & Co

1903-1970