Excerpt from Study of Phasing Transformers Faraday, 1881. The most important discovery for which we have to thank Faraday is that of induction. This discovery was made by him in the year 1831 and intimated to the philosophical world in a paper read on the 24th November 1881, appearing in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society in the year 1882. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.