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For the mere purpose of entertainment and the excitement of wonder, a display of brilliant electric experiments, even when performed in the most promiscuous and confused order, never fail to afford ample gratification to the curiosity. The studious observer, however, whose business is to inquire into the true beauties of the science, requires the most judicious arrangement of the phenomena that can possibly be devised, in order to facilitate his acquaintance with them, and with the laws by which they are displayed and associated with each other.

William Sturgeon

Experiments are intended to teach, and not to mystify.

William Sturgeon

William Sturgeon

William Sturgeon

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Born: May 22, 1783

Died: December 4, 1850 (aged 67)

Bio: William Sturgeon was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first practical English electric motor.

Known for:

Lectures on electricity (1842)
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