Inside nearly every electronic device is a simple coil of wire doing a powerful job—it’s called an inductor. Though small and ...

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Modern electronics are a far cry from what Michael Faraday, the pioneer of electrical gadgetry, can ever have imagined possible. But he’d surely be pleased, if only because the magnet, the component ...