Historically, Thomas precession came about as an attempt to explain why the thennew quantum theory involving electron spins could still correctly explain certain spectra of anomalous Zeeman effect, despite a puzzling missing factor of 1/2 in a standard calculation. In 1926, L.H.Thomas showed that people had overlooked a then-little-known relativistic kinematic effect in their calculations to resolve the puzzle. Because Thomas precession can and should be checked against experiments in the lab, it seems reasonable and worthwhile to investigate how a magnetic dipole interacts with a given static electric field directly from the point of view of a lab observer.