Quotation from: General Science

Written by: Bertha M. Clark


319. A New Source of Electricity. It came to most of us as a
surprise that an electric current has magnetic properties and
transforms a coil into a veritable magnet. Perhaps it will not
surprise us now to learn that a magnet in motion has electric
properties and is, in fact, able to produce a current within a wire.
This can be proved as follows:--


[Illustration: FIG. 237.--The motion of a magnet within a coil of wire
produces a current of electricity.]

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