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Messieurs, C'est Les Microbes Qui Auront Le Dernier Mot." (gentlemen, It Is The Microbes Who Will Have The Last Word.)

It Would Seem To Me That I Was Committing A Theft If I Were To Let One Day Go By Without Doing Some Work.

In That Memorable Year, 1822: Oersted, A Danish Physicist, Held In His Hands A Piece Of Copper Wire, Joined By Its Extremities To The Two Poles Of A Volta Pile. On His Table Was A Magnetized Needle On Its Pivot, And He Suddenly Saw (by Chance You Will Say, But Chance Only Favours The Mind Which Is Prepared) The Needle Move And Take Up A Position Quite Different From The One Assigned To It By Terrestrial Magnetism. A Wire Carrying An Electric Current Deviates A Magnetized Needle From Its Position. That, Gentlemen, Was The Birth Of The Modern Telegraph.

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