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Vail Collection

Welcome to MIT’s Vail Collection, an outstanding collection of books, pamphlets, and other special materials on electricity, magnetism, lighter-than-air travel, animal magnetism, and numerous other topics.

Originally assembled by a prolific British researcher and inventor, the collection has been at MIT since 1912. Enter the site to learn more about the man who created the collection, and about its contents.

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