Who Made the First Electricity Generator?

Michael Faraday (1791-1867), a British physicist and chemist is credited of inventing the first electrical generator or dynamo. His father was a blacksmith and Faraday had very little formal education. But he was an avid reader and used to read science books in the shop where he worked. He later worked as an assistant to Sir Humphry Davy. In 1821, he began to study the magnetic effects of an electric current and found that when he moved a magnet through a coil of wire, an electric current was produced in the wire. This discovery led him to invent the generator.

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