Jitter & Noise

EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Friday, August 14, 2009

Ørsteds for the masses

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If you read this today (14th August 2009), Google’s home page is worth a look; its custom artwork celebrates the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted (or Oersted; MS Word has the correct character for the initial letter of his name, time will tell when I post this, if the website font has the same…..)

The artwork depicts a circuit with some turns of wire around an iron nail, and a compass, nicely depicting the discovery of the relationship between moving charge and magnetic field.

How many of the mass audience of visitor to Google have the remotest idea of what it’s about, is entirely another matter.

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