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Quotation from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday
“Here therefore was demonstrated the production of a permanent current of electricity by ordinary magnets”
Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, First Series, paragraph 90 (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849))
With a copper disc turning between the poles of the Royal Society's magnet, Faraday obtains a continuous current: the first electric generator.
Citation: "Here therefore was demonstrated the production of a permanent current of electricity by ordinary magnets" — Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, First Series, paragraph 90 (Project Gutenberg #14986 (2nd ed., 1849)). (id faraday-experimental-researches-in-electricity-q4)
Portrait: M Faraday Th Phillips oil 1842, Thomas Phillips, Public domain.
