WHAT YOU NEED: stationery to make a small box ... magnetic field from the spinning magnets induces a current in the coil of wire. You have made your own electricity generator!

Whether it's a toaster or an electric car, everything that electricity does ... they turn the wire they're moving in into a magnet. Heat can boil water and make light bulbs glow, and magnets ...

One of electromagnetism’s key tenets is that the subatomic particles that make ... rotating magnetic apparatuses. As a generator spins, it sends electricity shooting through a wire coiled ...

Make sure you get wire thick enough that you can bend it so it maintains its shape. The first step is to wrap the magnet wire around a circular object to make a coil. I used a D-cell battery.

These very motors can be, and are, used to generate electricity ... but its magnetic force is manifested and controlled by electricity. When wire made of conducting material (copper, for example ...

humans have found ways to make their lives easier. Arguably, the machine that has most eased the burden of work for humans is the electric motor – a device that transforms electricity into motion.

I learned how to make a simple motor with a battery, nail, neodymium magnet and wire. But the seven roller ... uses magnets and electricity for acceleration. (An in-depth explanation of linear ...