Author : Jason Uvios In the years 1831-1832, Michael Faraday discovered that electric currents are produced when an electric conductor - a medium capable of conducting electric currents, is passed perpendicularly through it Now, while it may not sound very exciting, it is actually the next best thing discovered only to electricity That was the time the basic foundation was laid for the ubiquitously important Electric Conductor, in form of something called as the faraday disc This was a first