Michael Faraday

Author : Colin A. Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190283556
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday written by Colin A. Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as "little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school." Yet from such basics, he became one of the most prolific and wide-ranging experimental scientists who ever lived. As a bookbinder's apprentice with a voracious appetite for learning, he read every book he got his hands on. In 1812 he attended a series of chemistry lectures by Sir Humphry Davy at London's prestigious Royal Institution. He took copious and careful notes, and, in the hopes of landing a scientific job, bound them and sent them to the lecturer. Davy was impressed enough to hire the 21-year-old as a laboratory assistant. In his first decade at the Institution, Faraday discovered benzene, isobutylene, and two chlorides of carbon. But despite these and other accomplishments in chemistry, he is chiefly remembered for his work in physics. In 1831 he proved that magnetism could generate an electric current, thereby establishing the field of electromagnetism and leading to the invention of the dynamo. In addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career. An engaging public speaker, he gave popular lectures on scientific subjects, and helped found a tradition of scientific education for children and laypeople that continues to this day. Oxford Portraits in Science is an ongoing series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

Author : Michael Faraday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimental Researches in Electricity written by Michael Faraday and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Faraday
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775413578
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the Forces of Matter written by Michael Faraday and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-taught chemist and scientist Michael Faraday was one of the most prolific and prescient researchers to emerge from England in the nineteenth century. In this captivating collection of talks and lectures, Faraday sets forth some of his most influential theories, findings, and conjectures.

Author : Alan Hirshfeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080271823X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electric Life of Michael Faraday written by Alan Hirshfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Faraday was one of the most gifted and intuitive experimentalists the world has ever seen. Born into poverty in 1791 and trained as a bookbinder, Faraday rose through the ranks of the scientific elite even though, at the time, science was restricted to the wealthy or well-connected. During a career that spanned more than four decades, Faraday laid the groundwork of our technological society-notably, inventing the electric generator and electric motor. He also developed theories about space, force, and light that Einstein called the "greatest alteration . . . in our conception of the structure of reality since the foundation of theoretical physics by Newton." The Electric Life of Michael Faraday dramatizes Faraday's passion for understanding the dynamics of nature. He manned the barricades against superstition and pseudoscience, and pressed for a scientifically literate populace years before science had been deemed worthy of common study. A friend of Charles Dickens and an inspiration to Thomas Edison, the deeply religious Faraday sought no financial gain from his discoveries, content to reveal God's presence through the design of nature. In The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, Alan Hirshfeld presents a portrait of an icon of science, making Faraday's most significant discoveries about electricity and magnetism readily understandable, and presenting his momentous contributions to the modern world.

Author : Conversations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations on Chemistry written by Conversations and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Ludwig
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836197518
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday written by Charles Ludwig and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Ludwig retells Michael Faraday’s remarkable life story in fictionalized form. Here is the father of the electric motor, the dynamo, the transformer, the generator. Few persons are aware of the brilliant man’s deep Christian convictions and his determination to live by the Sermon on the Mount. For ages 12 to 15.

Author : J.M Thomas
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750301459
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution written by J.M Thomas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century technology is based and readers of this book will enjoy finding out in how many ways we are indebted to him. The story of his life speaks to us across the years and is a fascinating read, especially when the tale is told with the understanding and gusto that Professor Thomas-one of the UK's leading scientists-brings to the telling. Faraday took great trouble to make the latest discoveries of science, his own and others', intelligible to the layman, and the tradition he fostered has been kept alive ever since, so that the Royal Institution is as well known for its contributions to education as for its research. Written in a concise, nontechnical style, Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place is a human account that provides an introduction to the roots of modern science and ways in which scientists work. The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings, cartoons, photographs, and letters-many never before published. There is no similar book on Faraday that interprets his genius in modern, everyday terms, making it understandable, interesting, and exciting reading for scientists and nonscientists alike.

Author : James Hamilton
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781400060160
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Discovery written by James Hamilton and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 2002 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life of Michael Faraday, the discoverer of the fundamental laws of electricity, recounting his rise from a humble background to his eventual position as one of the leading scientists of his time.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979360470
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday written by Hourly History and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Faraday Michael Faraday is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern physics. His work in the field of electromagnetism revolutionized society, leading to new avenues of study and developments of technology that would leave the world changed forever. Without Faraday's discoveries, there would be no electronics or electrical power. There would be no technology as we recognize it, or at the very least those technologies would have taken much longer to arise, causing our time to look very different. Inside you will read about... - A Blacksmith's Son - From Bookbinder to Man of Science - The Royal Institution - Electricity - Magnetism - Famous Faraday And much more! This book tells the story of Michael Faraday's life from birth to death and the remarkable discoveries he made during his lifetime.

Author : William S Hammack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983966180
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle written by William S Hammack and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a companion to the EngineerGuy YouTube series of Michael Faraday's 19th century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This books contains the lectures, 14 illustrations, introductory guides and seven student activities with teaching guides.