What are magnets used for?

This is a question I'll let you answer. There are hundreds and hundreds of uses which you will discover here at "Magnet Man" and in the links. Yes, some are used to hold the family's schedule and photos onto the refrigerator door, but that is just one use for magnets. Magnets were first put to use to help navigate since they would always point in a North / South direction, no matter what the weather was. Daniel Boone once said, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." Perhaps if he had a compass, his bewilderment would have only lasted a few hours!

For the most part, magnets are used to hold, separate, control, convey and elevate products and to convert electrical energy into mechanical energy or convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.

Some more unusual uses for magnetics are:
refrigeration (see also Patent #4107935)
bending an electron beam or proton beam in a synchrotron

Here's a list of things I've found around the house and in the car that uses magnets or electromagnets to make them work:

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