The Electric Current: How Produced and How Used (Classic Reprint)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1333921306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 788 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Chinese are supposed to have known, as early as a.d. It is doubt ful whether the word magnet is due to the lodestone being first found by a shepherd named Magnes, as mentioned by Pliny, or to the circumstance that these black stones were first found near a town called Magnesia. Then we reach Gilbert, who in the work already mentioned much extended our knowledge of magnetic phenomena also, by numerous observations which we shall describe in the proper place.From the time of Gilbert onwards the sciences of Electricity and Magnetism progressed slowly but surely along separate lines, and it was not until the present century that the long-sought-for link connecting them was found by the discovery of Oersted in 1820 that an electric current was able to inuence a magnetic needle. The discovery of Oersted was followed by the brilliant investiga tions of Ampere and Faraday, and these, together with the results of the labours of a host of other workers in the samearm on UC now.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Not only was it known in these anci
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