What Makes A Motor Work How Does It Energize Things The...

Motors have quickly become an elemental apparatus in the operation of nearly everything in this world. Trains that take people to work, assembly lines that pump out food, toys and an assortment of commodities, cars, trucks, planes†¦The list goes on. But more importantly, how does a motor work and how does it energize things the way it does? Why is the motor still being used as opposed to some newer technological innovation that could potentially be more efficient? There are two distinctions that are subtle but nonetheless important, and that is the difference between and electric motor and an engine. The first(most glaringly at that) obvious difference is that an engine is often fueled with some kind of fossil fuel, such as petroleum†¦show more content†¦Since the scientific revolution, scientists and witty minds alike tried to come up with early precursors of the motor. However, quite a bit of the technology used today to produce items such as motors and engines were not in existence back then. The first resemblance of a motor can be seen in Andrew Gordon’s electrostatic machines that were produced in the 1740’s. However, this is not exactly a hallmark discovery that revolutionized the field whatsoever. What was ground-breaking in the field, however, was the discovery of Ampere’s law in 1820 which displayed the production of mechanical force via interactions of an electric current within a magnetic field. With the discovery of Ampere’s law came two impressive innovations in the field of electric motors and engines that slowly bring us closer to the ones of today: Barlow’s wheel and Michael Faraday’s 1821 electromagnetic experiment. Faraday’s experiment build directly upon the theory that Ampere concocted the year before, and it displayed electromagnetic activity being able to convert electrical energy to mechanical energy. This was shown by a loose wire being dipped in mercury with a magnet at the end. A current rose through the wire via the magnet, and the wire rotated around it, displaying that the wire can facilitate a close magnetic field. These attempts were not actually very productive, however. They didn’t resemble any