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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: reason to believe that currents do run in the general direction of
the circuit described, either one way or the other, according as the
passage of the waters is up or down the channel.' This was written
before the submarine cable was thought of, and he once informed me
that actual observation upon that cable had been found to be in
accordance with his theoretic deduction.[1]
Three years subsequent to the publication of these researches--
that is to say, on January 29, 1835--Faraday read before the Royal
Society a paper 'On the influence by induction of an electric
current upon itself.' A shock and spark of a peculiar character had
been observed by a young man named William Jenkin, who must have
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