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Figure 22.13 An electromagnet induces regions of permanent magnetism on a floppy disk coated with a ferromagnetic material.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

This makes obvious the importance of a proper permanent magnetism and displays the fallacy of some effort to increase the output of various devices depending upon these principles.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster

The Bell telephone may be used both as a transmitter and a receiver, and the permanent magnetism of the cores renders it independent of an electric battery.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald

In all the preceding experiments the bodies brought in presence were both in motion and the phenomena were analogous to those of permanent magnetism.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

It does not do to slam on the armature; every time you do so, you knock some of the so-called permanent magnetism out of it.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various