Faraday's Induction
1831
In a Royal Institution basement, Michael Faraday moved a magnet through a coil of copper wire and saw the galvanometer twitch. Electricity could be made from motion. Every generator, every dynamo, every power station in the world would descend from that flicker of a needle on a grey October afternoon.
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