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"Running an electric current through a wire adjacent to a magnetic compass needle"

How did they "generate a current" back in the day?

Thanks

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The battery was invented in 1800 and enabled experiments with constant currents. Yet it still took until 1819 for Örsted to device the crucial experiment.

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A Cliffhanger! That’s some amped up writing bro highly charged.

Electricity always seeks to return to it’s source. How about them apples.

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Next week's episode will appear a day early for a very special reason, and will share one of the most important dates in electromagnetic history that no one knows about.

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No one gives the dates of events in months, only in years, unless you read very specific texts. Perhaps the date has something to do with Faraday?

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It does indeed. And by remarkable coincidence I was just reading William Berkson's Fields of Force, and came across another reference to the event I'll describe tomorrow.

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Looking forward to another Hidden Truth.

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