Baille, Jean Baptiste Alexandre, b. 1841, Armstrong, John W., ed · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and co. · leaf 188
; and six months sufficed for himto build up an immense work, and to create thescience of electro-magnetism—the fruitful source ofthe telegraph, and of many other applications ofelectricity. Guided by his theoretic conceptions,Ampere had a presentiment of the existence of in-duction, and indicated… … Induction of one Wire by another. The fortunate electrician was Farada-, the iPus-trious English professor, who in 1832 observed thata wire traversed by an electric current, whenbrought suddenly into close proximity with anotherwire in its natural state, developed in the latter, in- 162 WONDERS OF…
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