Who discovered Mutual Inductance before Joseph Henry?
Michael Faraday
Samuel Morse
Charles Wheatstone
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Michael Faraday discovered mutual inductance before Joseph Henry, a fellow scientist who is often credited with the discovery. In 1831, Faraday conducted an experiment that showed that a changing magnetic field in one coil of wire could induce a current in another coil of wire. This phenomenon is known as mutual inductance. Henry conducted a similar experiment in 1832, but his work was not published until after Faraday's.
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