Early Applications of Electricity Engineering and
Sep 14, 2015#0183;#32;Inventors tried to improve the basic idea of electromagnetic induction and used magnets to create a flow of current in wires. One of the first to invent such a machine was Frenchman Hippolyte Pixii in 1832. Pixiis machine generated what would today be called an alternating current. It flowed first in one direction and then in the opposite