FARADAY'S LAW: Faraday's law of induction's history stems from Michael Faraday's experiments in 1831, which revealed that a changing magnetic field can induce an electric current. While Faraday is credited with the law, the deeper mathematical understanding of its implications comes from James Clerk Maxwell's work, incorporating it into the Maxwell–Faraday equation as part of his unification of electromagnetism. Faraday's discovery was a breakthrough, laying the foundation for technologies like

In this video David Ricketts recreates one of Michael Faraday's experiments, generating an electric current using the method Faraday employed. | Royal Institution of Great Britain