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| | Joseph Henry The Edison Exploratorium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | William Sturgeon’s electromagnet, which used loosely coiled uninsulated wire. |
 | | electrodes attached to a battery, it is best to wind several coils of wire in parallel, but, when using a set up with multiple batteries, there should be only one single, long coil used. |
 | | The rocking motion was caused by on of the two leads on both ends of the magnet rocker touching one of the two battery cells, causing a polarity change, and rocking the opposite direction until the other two leads hit the other battery. |
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