Any electrical motor, from an idealized viewpoint ... Rotor poles might be made to generate their currents by induction from the stator fields—a tricky proposition in 1888, for the conditions ...

When you think of who invented the induction motor, Nikola Tesla and Galileo Ferraris should come to mind. Though that could be a case of the squeaky wheel being the one that gets the grease.

Somewhere in most engineering educations, there’s a class on induction motors. Students learn about shaded-pole motors, two-phase and three-phase motors, squirrel cage motors, and DC-excited motors.