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discovered magnetic properties and gave them practical application?

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People believe that a shepherd, near Magnesia Greece, discovered the magnetic properties of rock, they were standing on 4000 years ago.

Magnets were first thought to be magical.

Around 2000 B.C. the Chinese used lodestone (another name for a magnet), to make compasses.



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