On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday connected a battery to an iron ring wound with insulated wire coils and noticed a brief electrical pulse register on a galvanometer attached to the secondary circuit. In that single moment of brilliant observation, electromagnetic induction was born. Faraday transformed electricity from an elusive lab curiosity into the foundational engine of the industrial and digital ages. Without this breakthrough, there would be no dynamos, no transformers, and no global power grids fueling today's hyper-dense data centers. Every gigawatt routed to keep microprocessors, fiber backbones, and machine learning clusters alive traces its lineage back to Faraday's humble induction experiment. It was the quiet physical breakthrough that established the continuous energetic substrate for all modern computing.