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WE have now arrived at the great discovery by Örsted of the connection between electricity and magnetism Örsted found that an electric current acts on a magnetic pole, but that it neither attracts it nor repels it, but causes it to move round the current. He expressed this by saying that “the electric conflict acts in a revolving manner.”
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On Action at a Distance* . Nature 7, 341–343 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007341f0
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