• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Go 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.

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours 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.

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      13 hours ago

      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