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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 hours agoGo back to a time where material quality and manufacturing processes couldn’t produce consistent quality and quantity of things needed to build a basic generator.
Where will you get the permanent magnet, for instance? What will you demonstrate once you’ve assembled a basic generator? Going to make a light bulb? How about a voltage regulator? Think about the manufacturing processes involved in that, like pulling a vacuum for the bulb? I mean, it’s one thing to know that spinning a magnet in a coil of wire makes electricity, it’s an entirely different thing to actually build such a thing correctly and to convince ancient peoples to even help you and not kill you for witchcraft or something.
Copper and lodestone were some of the first materials refined from ores. You can also create a permanent magnet by getting a piece of iron struck by lightning.
Once you have copper and a magnet you can use the electricity to make additional magnets out of iron.
It’s also possible to make a magnet with a compass, a piece of iron, and a striking hammer:
position the metal facing north, strike the southern end repeatedly
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 49 minutes ago
Well, a simple thing to do once you have a coil and magnet is to hook it up to another coil.and magnet some distance away. You can then transfer the spinning action. Something simple to set up would be a fan.
As for not killing me for witchcraft, plenty of folks want to kill me now for much more tangible reasons, so there really isn’t much to gain here.