{"id":7981,"date":"2010-03-10T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/faradays-shack-and-the-first-transformer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:50:58","slug":"faradays-shack-and-the-first-transformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/faradays-shack-and-the-first-transformer\/","title":{"rendered":"Faraday&#8217;s Shack and the First Transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/m_faraday_lab.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/m_faraday_lab.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446882215307324162\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In London, Billy and I visited Faraday&#8217;s workshop in the Royal Institution. Poor Michael set up shop in the servants&#8217; quarters in the basement. The shop is still down there (behind glass and well-preserved now). The painting above depicts Faraday at work in his shack.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiIIvKIuUMyvfTxXsmvt1HbEff7hzyTi6dU-95rc1P32-kTuXRVuE0iRSa6-c9CvPSwPY9ocThVbL-2LCSLKwCWZcoq2fX30wm8ji7NLpdzNDgqZjaVHMZz9xzK-d2kn2nh6HwdqbORStM\/s1600-h\/100_0356.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0356.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446883800130769138\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On display was the very first electrical transformer. And guess what guys: It was a toroid! Here is a picture of it:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhO6SdrBdWbgXFh5VADupWqTpVM3t1g_-yaytxVLkwNgF7U9HorjeCe_SDm0A4sxUk9bZPCbeqrpl3fi9ytqg16aOmn9udBAAUx5H8LCwxJpImeLP0TgecpU_55QLR8-BU2xH8YC0QSRsk\/s1600-h\/100_0347.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/100_0347.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446884428254454178\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I found one of Faraday&#8217;s drawings of the toroidal transformer and its windings. It looks a lot like the drawings of Doug DeMaw! I&#8217;ll scan it and post it tomorrow. Off to work now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In London, Billy and I visited Faraday&#8217;s workshop in the Royal Institution. Poor Michael set up shop in the servants&#8217; quarters in the basement. The shop is still down there (behind glass and well-preserved now). The painting above depicts Faraday at work in his shack. On display was the very first electrical transformer. And guess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/03\/10\/faradays-shack-and-the-first-transformer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Faraday&#8217;s Shack and the First Transformer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7985,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions\/7985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}