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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Answer to Tait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mounted disk of ebonite<br>Has whirled before, nor whirled in vain;<br>Rowland of Troy, that doughty knight,<br>Convection currents did obtain<br>In such a disk, of power to wheedle,<br>From its loved North the subtle needle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">’Twas when Sir Rowland, as a stage<br>From Troy to Baltimore, took rest<br>In Berlin, there old Archimage,<br>Armed him to follow up this quest;<br>Right glad to find himself possessor<br>Of the irrepressible Professor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But wouldst thou twirl that disk once more,<br>Then follow in Childe Rowland’s train,<br>To where in busy Baltimore<br>He brews the bantlings of his brain;<br>As he may do who still prefers<br>One Rowland to two Olivers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Rowland,—no, nor Oliver,-—<br>Could get electromotive force,<br>Which fact and reason both aver,<br>Has change of some kind as its source,<br>Out of a disk in swift rotation<br>Without the least acceleration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But with your splendid roundabout<br>Of mighty power, new-hung and greasy,<br>With galvanometer so stout,<br>A new research would be as easy;<br>A test which might perchance disclose,<br>Which way the electric current flows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take then a coil of copper pure,<br>And fix it on your whirling table;<br>Place the electrodes firm and sure<br>As near the axis as you’re able,<br>And soon you’ll learn the way to work it,<br>With galvanometer in circuit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not while the coil in spinning sleeps,<br>On her smooth axle swift and steady;<br>But when against the stops she sweeps,<br>To watch the light-spot then be ready,<br>That you may learn from its deflexion<br>The electric current’s true direction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It may be that it does not move,<br>Or moves but for some other reason;<br>Then let it be your boast to prove<br>(Though some may think it out of season,<br>And worthy of a fossil Druid),<br>That there is no Electric Fluid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Clerk+Maxwell">James Clerk Maxwell</a><div class=q>
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Has whirled before, nor whirled in vain;
Rowland of Troy, that doughty knight,
Convection currents did obtain
In such a disk, of power to wheedle,
From its loved North the subtle needle.

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