![]() ![]() Davy would hire Faraday after seeing extensive notes he had taken to act as his secretary and lab assistant.Īfter Davy and chemist William Hyde Wollaston unsuccessfully tried to build on Hans Christian Ørsted's discovery of the electromagnetic phenomena to harness the ability to create motion from electricity, Faraday was able to create his own device to create the first electric motor by applying electricity aligned along a magnet. Tyson continues on Faraday, coming from poor beginnings, would end up becoming interested in studying electricity after reading books and seeing lectures by Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution. ![]() Tyson explains how the idea of another force of nature, similar to gravitational forces, had been postulated by Isaac Newton before. This episode provides an overview of the nature of electromagnetism, as discovered through the work of Michael Faraday.
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