Albany, NY-A Pleasant Surprise Although Albany is the official capital of the state of New York, I've never really felt the influence of this remote upstate city. I live in New York City, and for me Manhattan has always been the unofficial capital of the state.
Electrical generator. 650 pages on this wiki. An electrical generator is a device that produces electrical energy from a mechanical energy source. The process is known as electricity generation.
While the generator and the vacuum (or any other device powered by a motor) may serve different functions, they are actually two sides of the same coin. In fact, they are the same device! In an electrical motor, the input is electricity and the output is mechanical power. Contrary to this, a generator takes mechanical power and outputs electricity. In both cases, electricity is flowing - just in a different direction! Electromagnetism. Both motors and generators run because of something called electromagnetic induction. Discovered by Michael Faraday, this is when a voltage is induced by a changing magnetic field. With electromagnetic induction, an electric current can be produced in a coil of wire by moving a magnet in or out of that coil, or by moving the coil through the magnetic field. Either way, voltage is created through motion.