Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland (1867-1917) began his own study based in the long tradition of work with electromagnetic terrellas. Between 1896 and 1913 he pursued a series of gas-discharge experiments in his laboratory at the University of Christiania (modern Oslo), directed primarily at reproducing in the laboratory the effects of the Aurora Borealis.
Article on Sphæra: the Newsletter of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
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