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will not be difficult to conceive, when I mention that instead of a permanent steel magnet in the movable part of the apparatus, a soft iron galvanic magnet is used.

"The motion here described, is entirely distinct from that produced by the electromagnetic combination of wires and magnets; it results directly from the mechanical action of ordinary magnetism, galvanism being only introduced for the purpose of changing the poles."

At the end of sixty years the same principle that led the great physicist (who is known to the World as a discoverer rather than an inventor) to make this "little machine" is used in constructing the electrical devices which may properly be classed among the mechanical triumphs of the century of invention."
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# See article "Henry's Electric Motor Constructed in 1831" by J. Elefreth Watkins, Electrical World, May 9, 1891.

Transcription Notes:
The name "Elefreth" was changed to "Elfreth" with the strikethrough of the second 'e'.