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Here's why: the 15-ton electromagnet can't just be disassembled and reassembled — it has to move with minimal tweaks to maintain its functionality.

Wind the insulated wire tightly around the nail to make an electromagnet. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram. Adjust the power pack so that a current of 0.1 A flows.

How do massive electromagnets move? Incredibly slowly, if the $3 million plan to get one of them from New York to Chicago can tell us anything. The move, over land and sea, will take a total of ...