The Earth a Great Magnet.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1157, 27 June 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Earth a Great Magnet.

Everything on the earth and in the ail above iq permeated with the earth's magnetio foroe— it goes through yonr olothes, it pehe-

trates yonr bodies, it saturates your brains — it is a part of life itself. Gaus, the illustrious German astronomer, has computed (taking is a unit of his measure a magnet, fourteen inches long, one inoh wide one fourth inch thick weighing one pound, made of the hardest steel and of the strongest magnetic force possible( the earth's magnetio force as equal to 8,464,000,000,000,000.000,000 suoh magnets. The attracting or lifting power of auoh a magnet is about ten pounds, which would make thd'ttftraotive power of the earth 12,810,000,000,000,000,000 tons. If this magnetism were equally distributed throughout the mass &l the earth, the magnetic intensity of each cubio yard would be equal to six of tbesa magnets, or about sixty pounds attractive force. Professor Mayer has Shown that this magnetic influence, this invisible force, is a power filling space to an unknown distance and radiating in the lines of magnetio force very muoh as the rays of the sunlight, the lines of the earth's magnetic force being from south to north, as indicated by the eompasa needle. — Jloroloaieal Neics.