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In 1831-1832, Michael Faraday discovered that a potential difference is generated between the ends of an electrical conductor that moves perpendicular to a magnetic field. He also built the first electromagnetic generator called the 'Faraday disc', a type of homopolar generator, using a copper disc rotating between the poles of a horseshoe magnet.

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Electrical generator - New World Encyclopedia

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An electrical generator is a device that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy, generally using electromagnetic induction. The source of mechanical energy may be a reciprocating or turbine steam engine, water falling through a turbine or waterwheel, an internal combustion engine, a wind turbine, a hand crank, or any other source of mechanical energy.

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Born in 1791 to a poor family in London, England, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was extremely curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to know more. At age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book of his own. He became interested in the concept of energy, specifically force. Because of his early reading and experiments with the idea of force, he was able to make important discoveries in electricity later in life. He eventually became a chemist and physicist.

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Made up in Britain: Electric Generator : Michael Faraday 1831

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In electric generator, a genorator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit. ... The first electromagnetic generator, the Faraday disk, was invented in 1831 by British scientist Michael Faraday.

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In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power ( mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit. Sources of mechanical energy include steam turbines, gas turbines, water turbines, internal combustion engines and even hand cranks. The first electromagnetic generator, the Faraday disk, was invented in 1831 by British scientist Michael Faraday.

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Who made the electric generator

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This is Michael Faraday's generator. This apparatus consists of a tube of neutral material wound with a coil of wire, insulated in cotton, and a bar magnet.

Ten years after Faraday created the electric motor he returned to his electrical research and discovered electro-magnetic induction in August 1831. A few months later he successfully conducted an experiment using this apparatus and demonstrated the relationship between magnetism and motion.

Faraday connected his apparatus to a galvanometer (an instrument that detects electrical current) and discovered that when he passed the magnet back and forth through the coil of wire, which remained stationary, the needle of the galvanometer leapt into action registering a current flowing.

As the magnet moves the lines of magnetic force repeatedly intersect with the wire exciting the electrons in the wire and generating electrical current. So if you exchanged the galvanometer with a light bulb today you would see it light up.

Virtually all electric power is produced using Faraday's principles, no matter whether the prime source of energy is coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro, or wind: all these fuels are used to drive a generator (or turbine) which generates the electrical current.

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This is Michael Faraday's generator. This apparatus consists of a tube of neutral material wound with a coil of wire, insulated in cotton, and a bar magnet. Ten years after Faraday created the electric motor he returned to his electrical research and discovered electro-magnetic induction in August 1831.

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Faraday's Electric Generator - Age of Revolution

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This simple-looking device revolutionised almost every aspect of the lives of people all over the world. It is the first ever generator of electricity.