Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by David Blockley

Author:David Blockley [Blockley, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-03-21T22:00:00+00:00

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was the pupil of Sir Humphry Davy and his successor as head of the Royal Institution in London. He was a chemist and a great experimental physicist who is dubbed by many ‘the father of electrical engineering’. It all started in 1821 when he was asked to write an historical account of electromagnetism for a scientific journal called the Annals of Philosophy. He decided to repeat important experiments others had done. Stimulated by his findings, he went on to make two new ingenious devices in which a wire carrying an electric current rotated around a fixed magnet and a free magnet rotated around a fixed conducting wire. In short, Faraday showed that electricity could generate physical work.

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