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Quotation from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
“When the contact was made, there was a sudden and very slight effect at the galvanometer, and there was also a similar slight effect when the contact with the battery was broken.”
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, First Series, paragraph 10 (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849))
The first observation of induced current between two interwound coils, appearing only at the making and breaking of contact.
Citation: "When the contact was made, there was a sudden and very slight effect at the galvanometer, and there was also a similar slight effect when the contact with the battery was broken." — Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, First Series, paragraph 10 (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849)). (id faraday-experimental-researches-in-electricity-q3)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
