„In early November 1845, he suspended a bar of heavy glass at the end of a silk thread between the jaws of a new, powerful electromagnet. Upon turning on the current, the bar immediately assumed an equatorial orientation, at a right angle to that taken by an iron bar.“


Farraday explained this with the pushing the field lines out of the body.

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