Crossword-Solution: INDUCTOR 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The blue gem is an inductor of the ether; in a sense, it is one of the anchors of the Spot of Life, or the Blind Spot--whatever we want to call it--the Spot of Contact.

Faraday's fertile imagination would naturally suggest the question, "Is this lateral action, which we call magnetism, extended to a distance by the action of intermediate particles?" If so, then it is reasonable to expect that all substances would not be affected in the same way, and therefore different results would be obtained if different media were interposed between the inductor and what I will merely call, for distinction, the inductometer.

This was a very prettily arranged electric balance, and by placing plates of different substances between the inductor and one of the inductometers Faraday expected to see the balance destroyed to an extent which would be indicated by the deflection of the needle of the galvanometer.

Todos los milagros posibles se reducen a los que yo hago cuando se me antoja en mi gabinete con una pila de Bunsen, un hilo inductor y una aguja imantada.

This pile was connected with the inductor of a small Ruhmkorff coil, whose armature was connected with a snaffle-bit placed in the horse's mouth.