At the Royal Institution in London, Michael Faraday was busy doing what scientists do best – playing around with wire and magnets. He discovered that if you push a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current flows through the wire while the magnet is moving. This is a generator; the thing that sits in all power stations around the world today, providing us with electricity. Faraday wasn’t interested in inventing the foundation of the modern world, he just wanted to learn about electricity and magnetism.

At the Royal Institution in London, Michael Faraday was busy doing what scientists do
best – playing around with wire and magnets. He discovered that if you push a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current flows through the wire
while the magnet is moving. This is a generator; the thing that sits in all power stations around the world today, providing us with electricity. Faraday
wasn’t interested in inventing the foundation of the modern world, he just wanted to learn about electricity and magnetism.