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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on August 14, 2009, 08:47:19 AM
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A not so celebrated 18/19th century scientist had his birthday today.
He was the first to produce aluminum, and the first to experimentally show that electricity and magnetism are connected. Try making robots without either discovery!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Ørsted
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Would you have known if it wasn't for google? ;D
When was the last time Bing honoured any scientists? ;P
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Would you have known if it wasn't for google? ;D
Nope.
But Bing has pretty pictures on their site! ;D
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someone should make a cake for this...
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belated happy birthday to him .we r studing about him now in school heheh
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Hi,
Yes, every Dane know this Hans Christian, as well as the Andersen variety ;D
Ever heard of http://web.dmi.dk/projects/oersted/ (http://web.dmi.dk/projects/oersted/)?
Some of it was build (not by me though) at our electronics club at DTU (Danish University on Technology) - a club for electronics engineering students as well as former students (i.e. engineers).