Faraday to George Cramp   3 September 18501

R Institution | 3 Sep 1850

Sir

I do not know of any Electro magnetic engine that will do what you require. There is much talk about one in America by Mr Page2 I think. But I shall not believe in it until I see it3[.]

Your Very Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

Geo Cramp Jun Esq | &c &c &c

1
Unidentified.
2
Charles Grafton Page (1812-1868, DAB). Principal Examiner in United States Patent Office, 1841-1852 and proto electrical engineer.
3
On Page’s large electric motor see Post (1976), 84-107 and Martin and Wetzler (1887), 19-21.

Bibliography

POST, Robert C. (1976): Physics, Patents, and Politics: A Biography of Charles Grafton Page, New York.

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