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Exploring the Electrifying Revolution Led by Faraday in Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey Episode 10 Part 6
Join Faraday on a journey to harness the power of electricity, as depicted in episode 10 part 6 of Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey. Dive into the world of electrons and witness the revolutionary experiments that paved the way for practical applications of electricity.
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After you tidy up, Faraday, you might see what you can make of it.
Davey may have been having a bit of fun at the expense of his young assistant, but Faraday was on fire.
Up to now, electricity had been nothing more than an entertaining novelty toy.
It could make a light flash for an instant or turn a compass needle briefly, but it had no practical application.
Faraday immediately set about designing the experiment,
devoting every moment of his spare time to the problem.
If Faraday succeeded, he would be putting an infinitely large,
invisible, and as yet undiscovered army of electrons
at the command of human whim.
How does a revolution begin?
Sometimes it doesn't take much.
A piece of metal, a bowl of mercury, a bit of cork.
Zeridan!
Send your little brother down.
I'm about to try something new, and I want him to see it.
Why don't you do the honors, Georgie?
There she goes.
There she goes!
Woo-hoo!
Ha, ha, ha!
Ha, ha, ha, ha!
This was the first motor converting electric current
into continuous mechanical motion.
Looks pretty feeble, right?
But that turning spindle is the beginning of a revolution, one that dwarfs all the shocks
fired and bombs ever detonated in the sheer magnitude of its effect on our civilization.
Try to imagine all of the businesses, industries, technologies, transformations of the way we
live that have their beginnings in that ecstatic moment in Michael Faraday's laboratory.
