Michael Faraday

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)
English bookbinder who became interested in Electricity. He obtained an assistantship in Davy's lab, then began to conduct his own experiments. He wrote a review article on current views about Electricity and Magnetism in 1821, for which he reproduced Oersted's experiment. He was one of the greatest experimenters ever. Because he was self trained, however, he had no grasp of mathematics and could therefore not understand a word of Ampère's papers. In the course of his experiments, Faraday discovered that a suspended magnet would revolve around a current bearing wire, leading him to propose that magnetism was a circular force. He also discovered magnetic optical rotation, invented the Dynamo (a device capable of converting electricity to motion) in 1821, discovered electromagnetic induction in 1831, and devised the laws of chemical electro-deposition of metals from solutions in 1857.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Michael Faraday was born on 22nd September 1791. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a London bookbinder. Reading many of the books in the shop, Faraday became fascinated by science, and wrote to Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution asking for a job. On 1st March 1813, he was appointed laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution. There Faraday immersed himself in the study of chemistry, becoming a skilled analytical chemist. In 1823 he discovered that chlorine could be liquefied and in 1825 he discovered a new substance known today as benzene.
However, his greatest work was with electricity. In 1821, soon after the Danish chemist, Oersted, discovered the phenomenon of electromagnetism, Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction. These experiments form the basis of modern electromagnetic technology.
Faraday's descriptive theory of lines of force moving between bodies with electrical and magnetic properties enabled James Clerk Maxwell to formulate an exact mathematical theory of the propagation of electromagnetic waves.
In 1865, Faraday ended his connection with the Royal Institution after over 50 years of service. He died at his house at Hampton Court on 25th August 1867.
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Der zweiseitige Ruhm des Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) gilt als der hervorragende Experimentator seiner Zeit. Durch seine Experimente hat er bedeutsame Beziehungen zwischen den elektrischen und magnetischen Erscheinungen praktisch erkannt und formuliert. Faraday wird gelegentlich in etwas überschwenglicher Art als Totengräber der klassischen Elektrizitätslehre und Begründer der modernen physikalischen Auffassungen bezeichnet. Was hat Faraday eigentlich selbst gewollt, und was haben seine Nachfolger daraus gemacht?
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ESVA: Faraday Mini-Exhibit
"The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of the scientific investigator have been crushed in silence and secrecy by his own severe criticism and adverse examination; that in the most successful instances not a tenth of the suggestions, the hopes, the wishes, the preliminary conclusions have been realized."
--Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday -- Super Scientist Biography
Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867). Born to a poor family in London, he was extremely curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to know more. At age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book of his own. He became interested in the concept of energy, or more specifically, force. Because of his early reading and experiments with the idea of force, he was able to make important discoveries in electricity later in life. He eventually became a chemist and physicist. He isolated benzene (a clear, colorless, flammable liquid derived from petroleum and used to manufacture motor fuels). He performed experiments demonstrating discovery of electromagnetic induction. This discovery paved the way for changing mechanical energy into electrical energy.
http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/faraday.html

MICHAEL FARADAY
Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, electro-magnetic rotations, the magneto-optical effect, diamagnetism, field theory and much else besides, was born in Newington Butts (the area of London now known as the Elephant and Castle) on 22 September 1791.
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MICHAEL FARADAY
FARADAY : CHEMIST, PHYSICIST, NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
This report of the famous scientist Michael Faraday is composed principally of the transcriptions of two interviews with Faraday, hitherto unpublished. The contents of the interviews indicate they were both with Faraday while he was the Director of the Laboratory at the Royal Institute, in London.
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/Faraday.html

Michael Faraday
Linksammlung über Michael Faraday und seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit.
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Michael Faraday
'My education was of the most ordinary description, consisting of little more than the rudiments of reading writing and writing at a common day school.
My hours out of school were passed at home or on the streets.'
Michael Faraday
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Faraday Laboratory & Museum
The Michael Faraday Museum houses his apparatus, manuscripts, pictures and personal memorabilia which include his medals, watches, microsopes and an inkstead. His Magnetic Laboratory has been restored on its original site. Among his many discoveries are the principles of electric motor, the transformer and the dynamo - the basis of electrical power and other electrical engineering industries. The instruments which he made or commissioned are on display, as well as the first sample of Benzene which he discovered, and the apparatus used in his pioneering work on the liquifaction of gases.
http://www.ri.ac.uk/History/MFL&M.html

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) & Creative Quotations
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday
Faraday was born on September 22, 1791, in Newington, Surrey, England. Faraday is famous mainly for his contributions to the understanding of the link between magnetism and electricity and for establishing the quantitative laws of electrolysis. He was the son of a blacksmith and received little formal education. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a bookbinder in London, where he was encouraged to read books on scientific subjects and experiment with electricity. In 1812 after attending a series of lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy the British chemist, he forwarded a request for employment. Davy employed Faraday as an assistant in his laboratory at the Royal Institute in 1813. Quite soon after his appointment Faraday accompanied Davy on a grand tour of Europe where he had the unique opportunity of seeing scientific research and attend lectures of some of Europe's finest scholars.
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The 1827 Christmas Lectures of Michael Faraday
A Project of the 1992 Summer Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry.
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