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made within the walls of the Royal Institution, with the identical 

 jtieces of historical apparatus which are lying on the lecture table. 

 With these simple coils of wire and these small magnets, in this very 

 Imilding, Faraday, in 1831, discovered the induction of electric cur- 

 rents and their generation by the motion of conductors in magnetic 

 fields. The working of all dynamo-electric generating plant is based 

 upon these discoveries. Thus we see how, from small beginnings, 

 great matters eventuate, and that scientific discoveries, which, at the 

 time of their origin, may have appeared of but academic interest, can 

 have stupendous influence on the resources and the history of mankind. 



[A. A. C. S.] 



