The Origins of the Royal Institution

In 1821 he discovers this movement, this sort of circular forces. Forces don't travel necessarily in straight lines,. They can be circular. Ten years later, the reverse happens. This idea of inductions. And maybe you could tell us a little bit about how that came to be and what it meant for society. What do we mean by induction? Actually, maybe we should just define what we mean by. Induction is to get electrical force out from magnetism. On the 29th of August 1831 he comes into his laboratory having made an induction ring. That's the world's first electric generator. All electricity power stations apart from those which are solar powered produce electricity in some way