Untitled (Homopolar Motor)
Cooper Campbell (after Michael Faraday)
1822, 2016, 2017 (Destroyed 2019)
Electronics, Glass, Mercury, Neodynium Magnet, Plexiglass
Faraday’s Motor (Homopolar Motor) is the first example of a man-made device that generates motion via the use of electricity. An electrode (E1) is draped over the edge of a container holding mercury. A second electrode (E2) drapes down into the mercury from above: thereby completing a circuit through the conductive mercury. A stationary magnetic point is placed at the center of the pool. As a current is fed through the circuit, E2 begins to move, shoved along by the electromagnetic field generated by the current.
Cooper Campbell (after Michael Faraday)
1822, 2016, 2017 (Destroyed 2019)
Electronics, Glass, Mercury, Neodynium Magnet, Plexiglass
Faraday’s Motor (Homopolar Motor) is the first example of a man-made device that generates motion via the use of electricity. An electrode (E1) is draped over the edge of a container holding mercury. A second electrode (E2) drapes down into the mercury from above: thereby completing a circuit through the conductive mercury. A stationary magnetic point is placed at the center of the pool. As a current is fed through the circuit, E2 begins to move, shoved along by the electromagnetic field generated by the current.