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I'm amazed that the scientific community of the time happened to have some kind of equipment to measure this phenomenon... all right before the time of the Amer
by TheAmazingRace 2y ago
I'm amazed that the scientific community of the time happened to have some kind of equipment to measure this phenomenon... all right before the time of the American Civil War.
- BobbyTables2 2y agoLondon had an earlier version of the Underground while we were busy burning things and shooting at each other in the swamps…
- aardvark179 2y agoThey didn’t just happened to have experiments set up to measure the magnetic field, improving navigation is really important if your power comes from trade so this sort of thing is funded.
- Roark66 2y agoAnd yet they were saving money by reusing photographic plates, bacause (as the article said) the observatory was constantly in danger of running out of funding. I guess science has always been underfunded.
- pvg 2y agohappened to have some kind of equipment Maxwell's A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field was published in 1865 - it's mostly your perception of the history of the relevant science that might be a few decades off.
- iyn 2y agoWhy so snarky? The paper you refer to was published after the event. I'm also amazed that it was possible to record such event at that time.
- pvg 2y agoI'm not sure where you got snarky, I'm just giving a little info on the state of scientific development of that particular field at the time. You need plenty of previous work to get to a theory of electromagnetism, as Maxwell did. If you prefer something a little earlier and more experimental Faraday published his seminal result in 1831. It took him about 10 years of fiddling with wires and magnets. I'm also amazed Which is wonderful! So were 19th century scientists, though, and they also figured it out.
- tanseydavid 2y agoThe comment you are responding to, does not seem at all snarky to me. Just sayin'.
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