Joseph Sweetman Ames Discovery of Induced Electric Currents

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Faraday was at this time professor in the Royal Institution in London, and had at his command all Of its resources. He had tried for several years to produce electric currents from magnetism, but failed. In August 1831 he made an electro magnet Ou the general plan of Henry's intensity magnet, a description Of which he had seen; and on August 29, 1831 he began his famous experimental researches in electricity in the course of which he was soon led to discover the method of production Of induced currents. On November 24 he read before the Royal Society a paper describing his discoveries. It was not until 1834 that he made any study of self-induction, his attention being called by Fleming J enkin to the shock felt on breaking circuits.