Hans Christian Oersted was the first to proclaim, in 1820, that a magnetic field is created around a wire that has a current running through it. In 1830, English physicist Michael Faraday ...
A Danish physicist and chemist, Hans Christian Ørsted, finally produced an impure sample in 1825 by heating aluminum chloride with potassium, and German chemist Friedrich Wöhler obtained pure ...
Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Hans Christian Oersted, William Cook and Charles Wheatstone. Prior to their inventions all communication ...
He built upon the work of Alessandro Volta who in 1800 invented the original battery and Hans Christian Oersted who in 1821 observed that a battery connected to wire moved the needle of a compass.