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Faraday made electricity from a moving magnet
A changing magnetic field pushes charges through a coil of wire In 1831 Michael Faraday found that moving a magnet in and out of a coil produced a brief current. Only change matters, since a magnet sitting still induces nothing. The principle drives generators, transformers and induction cookers today. It sits in Mondo's science collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Faraday made electricity from a moving magnet: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- A changing magnetic field pushes charges through a coil of wire. The figure is taken from Royal Society, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a science fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Science shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.