Michael Faraday, as you may read in the biographical section
of this web page, was a self-made man. In a time when the
cultural norm was to
stay within the economic situation you were born in he broke
free by his own
ambition. Faraday is credited with many fundamental concepts
that are currently
seen in used daily in our present time. A few of these concepts
are
electromagnetic fields from a conductor carrying a direct
current. He also conceived
the laws electrolysis and invented many machines that are the
basis of electric
motors that are used from everything from large commercial wood
mills turning
saw blades to ‘eco-friendly’ Prius cars.
In his time, he was known for explaining trying concepts in
a way that was logical, concise, and not overly verbose at first
at the city’s
philosophical society and later he was notorious for his
Christmas day
lectures. These lectures was something he believed in writing,
“a flame should
be lighted at the commencement and kept alive with unremitting
splendor to the
end” as he wished most for those who heard his lectures to try
to figure out
the natural world around them. As he later asked an audience,
“you know very
well that ice floats upon water…Why does the ice float? Think of
that and philosophize.”
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Faraday's Law
Faraday Cage
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