Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electric current in a conductor by a changing magnetic field. The English scientist Michael Faraday demonstrated it in 1831 at the Royal Institution in London, using an iron ring wound with two coils of wire, and showed that a current appeared briefly when the current in one coil was switched on or off. The American scientist Joseph Henry made similar discoveries independently around the same time. Faraday's observations were later put in mathematical form by James Clerk Maxwell. Induction is the principle behind the electric generator, the transformer and many other devices, and so made possible the large-scale production and distribution of electricity.
Before and after
- 1831Publication of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1831Discovery of Lewis chessmen
- 1831Birth of Sitting Bull
- 1831Founding of New York University
- 1831Electromagnetic induction
- 1831Hokusai publishes The Great Wave off Kanagawa
- from 20 January 1831 to 1 January 1833Bosnian uprising
- 13 June 1831Birth of James Clerk Maxwell
- 4 July 1831Death of James Monroe
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- 1766Discovery of hydrogen
- 1771Discovery of oxygen
- 1789Discovery of carbon
- 1825Discovery of aluminium
- 18 August 1868Discovery of helium
- 1898Discovery of krypton
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.