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meltyness
He should also be credited presumably with

- characterizing static electricity

- transformers (power transmission, wall warts, spark plugs)

- air conditioning / refrigeration / chlorine/ammonia's endothermic phase change from liquid to gas[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/up8LqQMLvK8?t=1470

guywithahat
> He should also be credited presumably with

> - transformers

I think you're thinking of Michael Bay, not Faraday

lgessler
You mean Ashish Vaswani et al.?
benj111
No, that was Michael Hasbro.
earthboundkid
Yes but arguably, Ben Franklin invented the Faraday cage. :-)
c3534l
More interesting to me is this history on balloon animals:

> The Aztecs created the first balloon sculptures using wildcat intestines, which were then presented to the gods as a sacrifice.

ginko
Now I imagine Aztecs offering balloon animals made out of wildcat intestines to their gods.