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Early years. The Bookbinder
Michael Faraday was born on September 22, 1791 in the village of Newington Butts near London -
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visit to the City Philosophical Society
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Laboratory assistant at the Royal Institute
In 1812, one of the visitors, musician William Dance, presented him with a ticket[13] to a series of public lectures at the Royal Institute of the famous chemist and physicist, discoverer of many chemical elements Humphrey Davy. Michael not only listened with interest, but also wrote down and rewrote in detail Davy's four lectures, which he sent him along with a letter asking him to hire him at the Royal Institute. -
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The path to science
The path to science, several significant works on physics published in 1821, showed that Faraday had quite developed as a major scientist. The main place among them was occupied by an article on the invention of an electric motor, which actually begins industrial electrical engineering. -
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Creating an electric motor. Scientific fame
Since 1820, Faraday has been extremely fascinated by the problem of studying the connections between electricity and magnetism. By this time, it already existed through the efforts of K. Gauss and J. Greene mainly developed the science of electrostatics. In 1800, A. Volta discovered a powerful direct current source ("voltaic column"), and a new science, electrodynamics, began to develop rapidly. Two outstanding discoveries were immediately made: electrolysis (1800) and the electric arc (1802). -
The study of electromagnetism
In 1822, an entry appeared in Faraday's laboratory diary: "To turn magnetism into electricity." Faraday's reasoning was as follows: if in Oersted's experiment an electric current has a magnetic force, and, according to Faraday, all forces are mutually reversible, then the movement of the magnet must excite an electric current.