Michael Faraday Facts
Michael Faraday Facts
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| Michael Faraday was born in what is now London, England and was the third of four children born to a working class family. |
| The family was unable to provide more than a basic education so Faraday was self-educated. |
| For seven years he was an apprentice to a bookseller and he read many books. |
| In 1812 he finished his apprenticeship and attended many lectures at the Royal Institution and Royal Society. |
| Faraday sent Humphry Davy, one of the lecturers, a three hundred page notebook based on the lectures. |
| Davy was impressed and on March 1, 1813 appointed Faraday to the post of Chemical Assistant at the Royal Institution. |
| In June 1832 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. |
| Faraday studied the nature of chlorine and in 1820 reported the first synthetic compound of chlorine and carbon. |
| He invented several new kinds of glass one of which was the first substance found to be repelled by the poles of a magnet. |
| He invented an early Bunsen burner for use in the laboratory. |
| He is best known for his work in electricity and magnetism. |
| His first recorded experiment in electricity was the creation of a voltaic pile from copper coins, sheet zinc and paper dampened with salt water. |
| He discovered the laws of electrolysis. |
| In 1834 he began experimenting with electromagnetic induction and discovered that when he wrapped two coils of wire around an iron ring, passing a current through one caused an induction current in the other. |
| He demonstrated that a changing magnetic field produces an electric response. |
| James Clerk Maxwell formulated the mathematical relationship and named it Faraday's law. |
| He completed a series of experiments on electricity which proved that electricity, regardless of its source, was of one type and not several. |
| It was the changing values of current and voltage that produced different observable results. |
| He built the first electric dynamo. |
| Faraday perfected an optical glass of borosilicate of lead which he used in his experiments on light and magnetism. |
| He investigated coal mine explosions and reported that coal dust was the explosive component in the mines but his report would be ignored for half a century. |
| He worked on the design and construction of lighthouses and experimented with lighting them electrically. |
| He was an early environmentalist and investigated industrial water pollution at Swansea and air pollution at the Royal Mint. |
| He was interested in education and lectured on the topic to the Royal Institution and the Public Schools commission. |
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