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The "1841" train delay blamed on a magnetic storm probably happened years later
A Space Weather paper argues that an anonymous 1871 report of a magnetic disturbance disrupting rail travel in Exeter in October 1841—thought to be the earliest space-weather effect on technology—most likely has a typo in its date.
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Carrington Event
After exploring Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery, the storm everyone compares to is Carrington Event.
The most intense geomagnetic storm on record (1859), which sparked fires in telegraph stations.
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