Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Michael Faraday” in entry electricity-in-the-nineteenth-century of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
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But it was a long time before the electric arc acquired any importance as a practical illuminant; the expense was too great, and the batteries soon became exhausted.
Michael Faraday , a most worthy successor of Davy, made the exceedingly important observation that a wire, if moved in the field of a magnet, would yield a current of electricity.
Simple as the discovery was, its e...
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