Description:
From Mr. Wheatland's inventory card:
"An assortment of odds and ends of pieces of iron for magnetic experiments such as small bars, rods, wire, iron filings, and two U magnets. Old box of pine with contents comes from Jeff[erson Physical Laboratory]."
These have been catalogued as:
0374a: pine box with three tied bundles of magnetized iron wire and an assemblage of 12 iron and steel rods of diverse cross sections and 5 old nails.
0374b: horseshoe magnet
0374c: horseshoe magnet