Show aars ag rs Huge Magnet causes workman in deatsie beath AW 0 PA death played a P pittsburgh grim joke on a pittsburg workman the other day appearing to the poor ollow follow in his most unfamiliar guise fohn thirty civo alvo years old ind a steel worker came under the influence of a 30 ton magnet and was ranked upward being so badly injured by y the impact that ho he died in a local hospital two hours later hla his head was caught between the stool billet he terao rao carrying and the huge magnet and brushed these mag marcta acts be it known are ono one of f the greatest laborsaving labor saving saying devices 0 af f mans mano many A huge piece loco of boft iron to ie swung about in ho a works where wanted through the potion lotion of a traveling crano crane or a big corrick lorr for lck rick to this iron is in connected wires through which a strong current ot of electricity can bo be sent cent at will soft iron has this peculiarity that it becomes highly magnetized on tho the passage ot of an electric current through its mass but on the current being shut off tho the magnetism magno ceases at once this property makes such ouch a piece of iron valuable tor for picking up bars bara ot of iron or steel kegs of nails or bolts bolto scrap iron or any substance to tho the magnetic influence it seems seema odd enough to the visitor at a big foundry or rolling mill when ho sees ouch euch a clumon looking piece of iron swung along over a hemp heap of several tons of scrap iron or chunks of crude material known in IU brade parlance an aa pig iron and tho the places pieces begin to jump upward and hang on to the magnet through this invisible force while slowly carried to some other part of the works where they quickly drop oz oil as tho the magnet loses its power through the shutting abutting off of tho the current of electricity the thing looks ridiculous yet the power that draws drawn these heavy pieces of iron or steel upward would sustain a weight of many tons just as easily |