[yann2]

It starts with Hans Christian Oersted deciding to place a compass next to a current carrying conductor.

Its such a simple thing but no one had thought of a reason to do such a thing.

What happened to the compass shocked the world and triggered Faradays many beautiful experiments.

[tomnipotent]

Ampere, Volta, Galvani, Ohm - so much of the modern world unfolding in just a few decades of discovery, when people still worked by the light of candles and oil lamps and it could take years for information to travel.