How Magnets were Discovered?
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Roughly 4,000 years ago, a Greek shepherd named Magnes is said to have been tending his sheep in a region of northern Greece called Magnesia. He took a step and suddenly found that the nails that held his shoe together and the metal tip of his staff were stuck fast to the rock he was standing on!
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According to Greek legend, magnetism was first discovered by a shepherd named Megnes, who lived in Megnesia, Greece. The iron in his stick and nails had become attracted to the magnetic rock. ... The stone was named magnetite, after the name of the shepherd or the country it was found in.
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