Abstract
Despite being born to an impoverished family, Michael Faraday’s energy and love for scientific research enabled him to become the outstanding experimentalist of the nineteenth century. This chapter describes his major discoveries relating to electromagnetic induction. By thoughtful and playful variations on Oersted’s discovery of the magnetic field surrounding a current-carrying wire, Faraday invented the electric motor. Searching for a complementary effect to Oersted’s, Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction and demonstrated the first transformer. A deep intuitive grasp of the nature of magnetism led him to generalize the idea of a force field that has become central to modern physics.
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