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Creating Electricity

Abdulaziz July 16, 2020

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Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
- discovered electromagnetic induction
- Faraday: unit of capacitance

Faraday Michael Christmas lecture detail

James Maxwell (1831-1879)
- translated Faradays theories into mathematical expressions
- Maxwell: unit of magnetic flux

Maxwell’s celebrated equations as depicted on the James Clerk Maxwell Statue in Edinburgh

1879 Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb which together with other inventions set off the 2nd Industrial Revolution

Thomas Edison

The War of the Currents (1880s /1890s)

series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems
- AC (Nikola Tesla | (Westinghouse)
- DC ( Edison | General Electric)

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Electricity history in Victoria