Seebeck Effect
Device for demonstrating the Seebeck Effect, Max Kohl Company, Chemnitz, around 1900

In 1821, Thomas Johann Seebeck discovers that warming a solder joint on a loop constructed of two different metals induces a flow of current, which can be demonstrated by the deflection of a magnetic needle (inverse of the Peltier effect).

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