I'm familiar with the name Michael Faraday. He invented his device in 1831!!! Wow.... Kinda off the subject, but have you noticed how many things have been invented since 1800? Trains, photography, aerial balloons (late 1700's), telegraph, steam engines, telephones, light bulbs, electric currents (Tesla & Edison), motion pictures, radio, on and on. All of that has laid the foundation for what we have today. Ya gotta wonder why didn't some one come up with this stuff 1000 years ago? "A time for everything..."
If Dick Kraft & other drag racing pioneers were alive today, I bet they would be able to pick up on what modern day drag racers are doing. They laid the foundation.