Yes Legh Faraday referred to a new born baby.


“What good is that?” that public asked in a talk in which Faraday demonstrated his discovery in 1831. “What good is a new-born baby?” he answered according to an urban legend that was also told by other scientists at the time. What he was able to achieve was to get that baby, the induction of electricity, to serve some useful purpose. He used it in a device that generated a direct current to set it in motion: he had thus succeeded in transforming movement into electricity, 


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