The Beauty of Electric Motors
Graphic By: Jenn Peterson

These days, people are all impressed by the inclusion of electric motors in automobiles, but electric motors have been helping us around the home for decades. Thanks to How Stuff Works.Com, we can bring you examples of household electric motors, as well as a simple explanation of how they all work. Electric motors are precious, time-saving, and miraculous marvels of modern science, and it’s time that we stop taking them for granted and give a little appreciation.

I bet you didn’t know it, but almost everything in your home that moves on its own accomplishes that movement through an electric motor. Here’s a short list of items in your home that have an electric motor in them.

In The Kitchen

  • The fan over the stove and in the microwave oven
  • The blender
  • The can opener
  • The tape player in the answering machine

    In The Utility Room

  • The washer / dryer
  • The electric saw / drill

    In The Bathroom

  • The fan
  • The electric toothbrush
  • The hair dryer
  • The electric razor

    In Your Car

  • Power windows and seats
  • Fans for the heater and the radiator
  • Windshield wipers

    In Several Other Places As Well

  • Several in the VCR , CD Player, and Tape Deck
  • Your computer
  • That personal "massager" that you use for more "intimate" uses

    Yes, that’s the short list, and you could find even more things that contain electric motors if you scoured your home. These little godsends of electromagnetism make our lives easier in many ways each time we use a device that contains one. You might be asking yourself right now, "But how do these marvels work?" Well, to answer that question I differ you back to How Stuff Works.Com, which is now running an article about our friend, the electric motor.

    Get down on your hands and knees and kiss the ground this great technology walks on. If it weren't for the electric motor, nothing that happens in the world today would be possible.


    If you’d like to learn more about motors and magnetism, you can visit Balidor.Com, Bodine Electric, How Stuff Works.Com, and Science Tech. For more a more personal experience with motors and magnetism, visit Vibrator.Com, where electromagnets come alive!


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    Name: zacman
    Year: frosh
    Major: mstd
    Comments:
    you whippersnappers and your 'electric motor'. gimme my steam-powered computer, and let that be the end of it!