File:Faraday Disk Generator.jpg
The caption describes it as 'Foucault's and Le Roux's apparatus' so this picture was not drawn from Faraday's original machine, but one owned by Faraday's contemporary French physicist Léon Foucault. The Faraday disk was an inefficient generator because counter-currents flowed back through regions of the disk outside the magnetic field. It was the first homopolar generator
Alterations to image: cropped out caption and list of parts.
Alterations to image: cropped out caption and list of parts.
(Reusing this file)