Oersted
['ɜːsted] or ['ɝstɛd]
Definition
(noun.) Danish physicist (1777-1851).
(noun.) the magnetic field strength 1 cm from a unit magnetic pole.
Edited by Jason--From WordNet
Examples
- Since Oersted’s first electric magnet in 1820, electric magnets have been made in a variety of forms and for many different purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It has been said that although Oersted was the discoverer of electro-magnetism and Ampère its expounder, Faraday made the science of magnets electrically what it is at the present day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Oersted, in 1827, preceded him with important preliminary steps, and Deville, in 1854, followed in the first commercial applications. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The galvanic influence on a magnetic needle by Romagnosi (1802) Oersted (1820). William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Electro-magnetism, the underlying principle of the electro-magnet, was first discovered in 1819 by Prof. Oersted, of Copenhagen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Electro-Magnetism discovered by Oersted of Copenhagen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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