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1. Henry Ford

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   Early Life and Mechanical Inclinations
   Henry Ford was born on a farm in Springwells Township, Michigan, on July 30, 1863. His early aptitude leaned away from agrarian labor and toward mechanics. By the age of sixteen, Ford left the family farm for Detroit, where he secured an apprenticeship that exposed him to the nascent field of machine tooling [1]. During this period, Ford famously developed a pr…

2. Meridian

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   Magnetic Meridian
   The magnetic meridian is the line traced by a freely suspended magnetic needle, which aligns itself with the local direction of the Earth's magnetic field lines. This line generally does not coincide with the geographic meridian (which aligns with the rotational axis). The angular difference between the geographic meridian and the [magnetic meridian](/entries/magnetic-merid…