X. An account of some magnetical experiments made before the Royal Society, on Thursday the 24th Day of June 1736

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1738
• Subjects: South Pole; The Needle; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1737.0065; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1737.0065

I Took a Bar of Iron, of one fourth of an Inch Diameter (which having been 15 Years in an erect Position, had acquir'd a fix'd Pole at Top, so that the End which had stood uppermost attracted the North End of a Compass-Needle, and the other End the South End of the Needle); and having suspended it by a String for the Space of half a Year, it acquir'd a fix'd South Pole at that End, as well as it had done at the other in the Time of 15 Years, without diminishing the Virtue of the other End: So that both Ends of the Rod in any Situation attracted the North End of the Needle of the Compass.