Electric Motor
Direct current motor by the Swiss watchmaker Matthias Hipp, late nineteenth century

The current induces magnetic fields in the coils of the stator and in certain coils of the rotor. Using a collector ring subdivided into many sections, a magnetic field is induced in those coils of the rotor whose magnetic fields set (for the given position in the field of the stator) the rotor in motion.

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