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Garfield: "His to interpret to the world that subtle and mysterious element withwhich the thinkers of the human race had so long been occupied. As Franklin had exhibited the relation between lightning and theelectric fluid, so Oersted exhibited the relation between magnetismand electricity. From 1820 to 1825, his discovery was furtherdeveloped by Davy and Sturgeon of England, and Arago and Ampere ofFrance. The electro-magnetic telegraph is the embodiment, I mightsay the incarnation, of many cen...turies of thought, of many generationsof effort to elicit from Nature one of her deepest mysteries. No one man, no one century, could have achieved it. It is thechild of the human race, the heir of all ages. How wonderfulare the steps that led to its creation! The very name of thistelegraphic instrument bears record of its history--Electric, Magnetic. "The first, named from the bit of yellow amber whose qualitiesof attraction and repulsion were discovered by a Grecian philosophertwenty-four centuries ago, and the second, from Magnesia, thevillage of Asia Minor where first was found the lodestone, whosetouch turned the needle forever toward the north.
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