GRAVITY OVERCOME.
Scientist Causes Steel To
Float In Air.
MAGNETISED METAL.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) NEW YORK, October 26.
A message from Atlanta, Georgia, says that simultaneously with an announcement that 'an English scientist had overcome gravity Dr. Sergius Grace, vice-president of the Bell Telephone Laboratory, gave a similar demonstration, during which a supermagnetised piece of cobalt steel floated in the air above a similarly magnetised cobalt bar contained in a wooden box.
Dr. Grace said that natural repulsion caused the upper bar to remain suspended.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 255, 27 October 1928, Page 9
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