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After winding, the copper coils are lowered by crane around a magnetic core made from hundreds of stacked sheets of millimeters-thin electrical steel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
He was also one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, an efficient form of computer memory that dominated the computer industry for more than two decades.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016
In this production you’re seldom aware of the threatening but magnetic core of quiet that always lurks beneath the words, especially in the first crucial quarter of its uninterrupted 80 minutes.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
With each drive, he blasted a half dozen nails into its housing, then picked it up, and shook it against his ear to listen for the telltale rattle of its shattered magnetic core.
From Slate • Jun. 24, 2015
Gradually the earth solidified into a vast magnet of crystalline rock and metal and like the magnetic core of a steel magnet of vast extent and power, it drew millions of meteors from space.
From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward
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