Faraday then turned his own thinking inside out. In 1831 he invented the dynamo, an inverse motor. Moving a loop of wires around a fixed magnet can induce electricity.

Few inventions have had such a profound impact on modern society as the electric motor. Today, these machines power everything from household appliances to industrial machinery, creating a reliable ...

Click here to see the full-size graphic. (PDF) While the specific internal workings of entrepreneur Aaron LeMieux's Personal Energy Generator are currently under patent review, the principle that ...

In 1832, Hippolyte Pixii, a French instrument maker, created the first dynamoelectric generator, or dynamo for short, based on Michael Faraday's principles. The dynamo was the first step in ...

A London blacksmith's son with no formal schooling, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was to become the most respected scientist of his time. His epochal discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831 ...