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The needle tended to stand at right angles to the radius. He knew that there was some correlation between the fields of magnetism and electricity, but he could not quite link it. Because of that, he published his findings without any explanation. When he died in Copenhagen on March 9, 1851, he had yet to make the connection...
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When he died in Copenhagen on March 9, 1851, he had yet to make the connection. This discovery and experiment were further researched and the explanation is that the compass needle is tangent to a circular magnetic field around the wire. The north end of the needle always points in the direction of the magnetic field force...
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