productivity of modern industry, and it is therefore directly responsible for the high standard of living being enjoyed throughout the
industrialized world.
The beginnings of the electric motor are shrouded in mystery, but thismuch seems clear: The basic principles of electromagnetic induction were
discovered in the early 1800s by Oersted, Gauss and Faraday, and this combination of Scandinavian, German and English thought gave us the
fundamentals for the electric motor. In the late 1800s the a