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Faraday's Laboratory and Museum
back to sights listingIn this laboratory many of Michael Faraday's the most important discoveries were made. The building has been restored to the form it was known to have in 1852.
The museum houses a unique collection of original apparatus arranged to illustrate the more significant aspects of Faraday's contribution to science.
Michael Faraday
Later famous English scientist, Michel Faraday was born in Newington Butts (the area of London now known as the Elephant and Castle) on 22 September 1791. His father, James, was a blacksmith and a member of the Sandemanian sect of Christianity. James Faraday had come to London in the late 1780s from North-West England. Very little is known of the first few years of Faraday's life. In an autobiographical note Faraday recalled that he had attended a day school and had learnt the "rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic". At the age of 14 little Michael Faraday had to start working instead of continuing the education, but he still managed to acquire a store of scientific knowledge through reading and by attending lectures by Sir Humphry Davy. In 1813 he became assistant to Davy at the Royal Institution in London. He was made a member of the institution in 1823 and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1824 and in 1825 he became already the director of the laboratory, and from 1833 he was Fullerian professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution. He declined knighthood and the presidency of the Royal Society. His experiments yielded some of the most significant principles and inventions in scientific history. He developed the first dynamo (in the form of a copper disk rotated between the poles of a permanent magnet), the precursor of modern dynamos and generators. From his discovery of electromagnetic induction (1831) stemmed a vast development of electrical machinery for industry. In 1825, Faraday discovered the compound benzene. In addition to other contributions he did research on electrolysis, formulating Faraday's law . He laid the foundations of the classical field theory, later fully developed by J. C. Maxwell. Some of his works were collected as Experimental Researches in Electricity (3 vol., 1839-55) and Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (1859).
The most famous Michael Faraday's discoveries are: electro-magnetic induction, electro-magnetic rotations, the magneto-optical effect, diamagnetism, field theory and much else besides.
The Faraday Museum is closed due to refurbishment of the building. It will reopen towards the end of 2007!
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