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 Faraday was greatly interested in the invention of the electro-magnet, but his brilliant mind took earlier experiments still further.
- If electricity could produce magnetism, he asked himself, why couldn't magnetism produce electricity?
- In 1830, Faraday found the solution. Electricity could be produced through magnetism by motion.
- Faraday discovered that when a magnet is moved inside a coil of copper wire, a tiny electric current flows through the wire. Of course, Faraday's electric dynamo or generator was small and crude, and provided only a small electrical current by today's standards. But he discovered the first method of generating electricity by means of motion in a magnetic field.
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