(The Providence Journal, September 22, 1999). IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT - a magnetic top spinning, bobbing and weaving in space for two minutes or longer. It remains levitated two or three inches above a larger base magnet. The top is not touching any other object, and no strings, electricity or other devices are used.

(The Providence Journal, September 23, 1999) Second of two parts. In 1993 Seattle entrepreneur Bill Hones ran across a 10-year-old U.S. patent des cribing a device for levitating a spinning permanent magnet. Hones contacted Roy Harrigan, the inven tor, to ask about it. Harrigan assured him that the magnet really does levitate. To prove it he sent Hones a videotape showing an actual working model.