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jun 25, 1820 - Electric generators and electric motors

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In the 1820s and ’30s British scientist Michael Faradaydemonstrated experimentally that passing an electric current through a coil of wire between two poles of a magnet would cause the coil to turn, while turning a coil of wire between two poles of a magnet would generate an electric current in the coil (electromagnetic induction).

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jun 25, 1820
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~ 206 years ago