Google’s Next Doodle, Hans Christian Ørsted Birthday
Google’s home page is featuring a Google Doodle for the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted, who was born today on 1777. He is known for figuring out that a magnetic field can be induced by electric currents. In other words, he noticed that an electric current can make a compass needle move to the magnetic […]
Barry Schwartz on August 14, 2009 at 9:14 am | Reading time: 1 minute
Google’s home page is featuring a Google Doodle for the birthday of Hans Christian Ørsted, who was born today on 1777. He is known for figuring out that a magnetic field can be induced by electric currents. In other words, he noticed that an electric current can make a compass needle move to the magnetic north.
You can learn more about Hans Christian Ørsted at Wikipedia. I did make a point at the Search Engine Roundtable that this logo is not about a Google bomb.
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