On Some New Electro Magnetical Motions And On The Theory Of Magnetism With New Electro Magnetic

by Michael Faraday

$3,600 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“Although his discovery of the electric motor and the dynamo was almost entirely incidental to his theoretical discoveries, it laid the foundation of the modern electrical industry – electric light and power, telephony, wireless telegraphy, television, etc. – by providing for the production of continuous mechanical motion from an electrical source, and vice versa...” –Printing and the Mind of Man, 308 FARADAY INVENTS THE ELECTRIC MOTOR: FIRST

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