Michael Faraday Research Paper

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Michael Faraday
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Jules De Soto - Bronze I Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a self educated son of a blacksmith. He was born on September 22, 1791 in Newington Butts, England and died on August 25, 1867 in Middlesex, England at the age of 75. He is most know for his experiments with electricity and the magnetic field, which lead him to develop the Faraday Law of Induction. He had been an apprentice to a book binder and book seller Mr. Riebau before he worked for a French book binder named de la Roche. Michael, who was very interested science and spent any free time he had reading all about science. He educated himself in various ways, by reading and attending various public lectures. Although he was not formally …show more content…
Although Faraday was not a gentleman he was in the pursuit of science, and in 1812 he got a tickets from one of Mr. Riebau's customers to hear Sir Humphry Davy, who was the most prominent chemist of his time at the Royal Institution.
During Humphry's lecture Faraday took many notes and illustrations, he bound his notes into a 360 page book and gave it to Sir Humphry Davy. It was because of this book that Sir Humphry Davy had written Michael Faraday a letter inviting him to come by and see him any time. In 1812 while Sir Humphry was conducting an experiment with nitrogen trichloride damaged his eyesight and hired Michael Faraday as his assistant to help him in the laboratory. Sir Davy was a pioneer in the field of electrolysis. Electrolysis, is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC) to drive an …show more content…
Those experiments lead him to electromagnetic induction. Electromagnetic induction is principle behind the electric transformer and generator. This gave us the conversion of motion into electricity, and it was the first generator, which meant that electricity would be available whenever we needed it.
Thanks to Michael Faraday's work it made the way for the development of radar, the cinema, television, space travel, computers, electric trains, domestic lighting, and electrically-driven machinery5 just to name a few of the modern machines we use today. Michael Faraday went on to make many more experiments and discoveries. He also loved lecturing gave a series of 19 Christmas lectures to young people. He hoped to inspire the general public at the Royal Institution. He said "a flame should be lighted at the commencement and kept alive with unremitting splendour to the
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