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Michael Faraday (/ ˈ f ær ə d eɪ,-d i /; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English physicist and chemist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Harriet Jane Carrick Moore (1801 – 6 March 1884) [1] was a British watercolour artist who is best known for her drawings of Michael Faraday's work at the Royal Institution. She documented his apartment, study, and laboratory in a series of watercolour paintings in the early 1850s.
1831 – Michael Faraday began experiments leading to his discovery of the law of electromagnetic induction, though the discovery may have been anticipated by the work of Francesco Zantedeschi. His breakthrough came when he wrapped two insulated coils of wire around a massive iron ring, bolted to a chair, and found that upon passing a current ...
Although development of the first radio wave communication system is attributed to Guglielmo Marconi, his was just the practical application of 80 years of scientific advancement in the field including the predictions of Michael Faraday, the theoretical work of James Clerk Maxwell, and the experimental demonstrations of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. [1]
1831 – Michael Faraday: Faraday's law of induction; 1833 – William Rowan Hamilton: Hamiltonian mechanics; 1838 – Michael Faraday: Lines of force; 1838 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss: Earth's magnetic field [clarification needed] 1842–43 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and Julius von Mayer: Conservation of energy
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His biography of Michael Faraday won the Pfizer Award in 1965. At that time most work in the history of science was focused on the scientific revolution of the 17th century and the 18th century spread of Newtonian philosophy; biographies of 19th century figures, other than Charles Darwin, were still rare.
Michael Faraday developed the concept of lines of force to describe electric and magnetic phenomena. [13] In 1831, he writes [13] By magnetic curves, I mean the lines of magnetic forces, however modified by the juxtaposition of poles, which would be depicted by iron filings; or those to ·which a very small magnetic needle would form a tangent."