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LIKE most branches of physics, terrestrial magnetism has associations with the name of Kelvin, and, characteristically enough, these associations are at the two confines of the subject, the immediately practical, and the speculative. Lord Kelvin, I need scarcely remind you, introduced important changes of design into compasses, and the construction of compasses was an important object of the Glasgow firm which eventually bore his name.
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Lord Kelvin and Terrestrial Magnetism 1 . Nature 97, 509–513 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097509b0
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