1859 Magnetic Storm...
Friday, 4. September 2009, 00:55:02
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/telegraphs-ran-on-electric-air-in-crazy-magnetic-storm-150-years-ago/
Wired.com
Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859 Magnetic Storm
By Alexis Madrigal
September 2, 2009
Image: TRACE/NASA
..."On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their machines, and kept working using just the electricity coursing through the air"...
..."As if what was happening in the heavens wasn’t enough, the communications infrastructure just beginning to stretch along the eastern seaboard was going haywire from all the electromagnetism.
“We observed the influence upon the lines at the time of commencing business — 8 o’clock — and it continued so strong up to 9 1/2 as to prevent any business from being done, excepting by throwing off the batteries at each end of the line and working by the atmospheric current entirely!” the astonished telegraph operators of Boston wrote in a statement that appeared in The New York Times later that week."...
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Wired.com
Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859 Magnetic Storm
By Alexis Madrigal
September 2, 2009
Image: TRACE/NASA
..."On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their machines, and kept working using just the electricity coursing through the air"...
..."As if what was happening in the heavens wasn’t enough, the communications infrastructure just beginning to stretch along the eastern seaboard was going haywire from all the electromagnetism.
“We observed the influence upon the lines at the time of commencing business — 8 o’clock — and it continued so strong up to 9 1/2 as to prevent any business from being done, excepting by throwing off the batteries at each end of the line and working by the atmospheric current entirely!” the astonished telegraph operators of Boston wrote in a statement that appeared in The New York Times later that week."...
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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Nasa TV
For space buffs out there these past 2 days/nights and coming few days
will provide viewers with interesting space works/walks.
Space Shuttle Mission: STS-128
(Please click on the above link(s) to read the article(s) in full. Thank you. tkm)
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