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Electric Motors & Michael Faraday

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Death of Faraday

Ursula was a famous Danish natural philosopher who worked in Copenhagen. She discovered that if you had a compass needle in the vicinity of a wire carrying an electric current, the needle was deflected. But it's actually really well unclear what he'd actually done, other than he managed to make a compass needle deflect. Faraday had read this and he was intrigued by it or what was the...

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