The modern world

Created by Michael Faraday in 1831 and patented by Thomas Edison in 1879, US patent 222,881; the electricity induction generator is literally the mother of all modern inventions and the catalyst of our modern civilisation.

There is nothing in our lives today that doesn’t use electricity and nearly all of it is created by the electricity generator, consider for example, mining, metals and ceramics, manufacturing, medicine. Think of all of the great inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries; radio, television, computers, mobile communications, microwave ovens, the light bulb, batteries, cars; from the food we eat to the water we drink to the fuel we burn; in our modern world electricity is used nearly every where. Without the electricity generator, life as we know it would be impossible; we’d be burning candles and writing on parchment; we might not even be here had it not been for the electricity in our hospitals.

Clearly, the greatest patented invention of all time is the electricity induction motor. And it’s all thanks to Faraday, inventor of the modern world.

Submitted by: Ian Anderson