Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The life and work of Michael Faraday, and applications of his discovery of electro-magnetic induction
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 3, no. 9, Sep 1931, pp. 330-332
- Description
Celebrations by Scientific and Technical Societies in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney on 22nd September, 1931.
The author, Professor J. P. V. Madsen, DSc BE MIEAust, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney,
- Abstract
The world has seen no greater experimental philosopher than Michael Faraday. The particular event of importance which we celebrate to-night is what Faraday described in his original notes as "Experiments upon the production of electricity from magnetism". These experiments showed that electrical currents were induced in electrically conducting circuits when they were moved relatively to magnetic fields. One of the immediate results of this discovery was the recognition of an effective means of utilising "the principle of transformation of energy from mechanical to electrical form". Previously, such a transformation had been demonstrated by frictional apparatus, but up to the present day this method has not been developed beyond laboratory equipment capable of dealing with extremely small amounts of energy.
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- 'Michael Faraday Celebrations, 1931. Centenary of discovery of electro-magnetic induction', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (9) (1931), 329. Details
- Vonwiller, O. U., 'The influence of Michael Faraday's work on modern science', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (9) (1931), 333-335. Details