Oersted and the Birth of Electromagnetism
Posted on Saturday, May 2, 2020
Show Notes
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References:
- Original paper: Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle on archive
- Original paper: Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle reformated on LaTeX
- Romagnosi and Volta’s Pile: Early Difficulties in the Interpretation of Voltaic Electricity. This contains Romagnosi’s Italian newspaper clip and its English translation.
- Oersted acknowledging Romagnosi’s old work
- A chapter on Oersted’s discovery of electromagnetism in H.A.M. Snelder’s book Romanticism and the Sciences
- A video rant about Bhagdad battery by ElectroBoom
A demonstration of the experiment:
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