There are many ways of generating electricity without magnetic induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods_of_generating_electricity

There are many ways of generating electricity without magnetic induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods_of_generating_electricity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Methods... Batteries was (iirc) the typical way it was done before Faraday.