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   From: phil_a@tpg.com.au   
      
   "Patrick Turneroid Menace"   
      
   >   
   > ** The various Wikis on magnetism and electromagnetism are rather more   
   > informative and have better diagrams.   
   >   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetism   
   >   
   > The first dude to ever wind some copper wire around an iron nail was   
   > really   
   > onto something....   
      
   Maybe that first dude needed to to know a bit about several things   
   before realizing he was onto anything. Just winding wire around a nail   
   is a fencing job, or cheap DIY repair.   
   But if the FD had insulated wire, and a battery, he'd have been a   
   scientific dude   
      
      
   ** Of course, you pedantic twat.   
      
   Bill Sturgeon, an apprentice shoemaker from Lancashire did it first.   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sturgeon   
      
   He used bare copper wire, a bent piece of iron and a single cell.   
      
      
   ...  Phil   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)