Simple Electric Motor

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Michael Faraday

In 1821, in London, Michael Faraday demonstrated the first simple electric motor, a wire carrying a current rotating around a fixed electromagnet. He successfully applied the newly discovered phenomenon of electromagnetism and would go on to invent the generator and the transformer.