Michael Discovers the Magnet

Duration: 11

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1955

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educ Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A third-grade boy becomes interested in magnetism, discovers through home experimentation the common properties of magnets, demonstrates magnetic phenomena in a show for his friends, and learns of the uses of magnets in electrical equipment such as loud-speakers, telephone receivers, and motors., A young boy experiments with magnets and demonstrates that magnets attract only iron and steel, magnetic force goes through other materials, magnetic force is strongest at the poles, opposite poles attract and like poles repel.

Complete Record: A third-grade boy becomes interested in magnetism, discovers through home experimentation the common properties of magnets, demonstrates magnetic phenomena in a show for his friends, and learns of the uses of magnets in electrical equipment such as loud-speakers, telephone receivers, and motors., A young boy experiments with magnets and demonstrates that magnets attract only iron and steel, magnetic force goes through other materials, magnetic force is strongest at the poles, opposite poles attract and like poles repel.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.