The word magnet came from the name of a Greek shepherd, Magnes, who discovered that a certain rock in the ground attracted certain metals. The legend says that the shepherd was herding his sheep when the iron nails in his sandals mysteriously stuck to a rock in the ground. When he picked up a similar rock and brought it back to his town, everyone thought the rock possessed some sort of magic and that is why it “loved” the iron. The rock that he found was called magnetite, or lodestone. Lodestone is a type of iron ore that has magnetic attraction, although rarely does it possess a strong magnetic field. There are many other cases of incidents that have happened with natural magnets to unsuspecting people. In one case, a miner had his metal helmet pulled off hi

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