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Michael Faraday delivering a Christmas Lecture in 1856. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining ...
The Royal Institution was founded as the result of a proposal by Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) for the "formation by Subscription, in the Metropolis of the British Empire, of a Public Institution for diffusing the Knowledge and facilitating the general Introduction of useful Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, and for the teaching by courses of Philosophical Lectures and ...
Mond's vision for the laboratory included its association with the Royal Institution, which had an association with Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday, whose names the laboratory commemorates. The building was designed to accommodate independent investigators, and preference was given to those who had already demonstrated significant ...
The Chemical History of a Candle was the title of a series of six lectures on the chemistry and physics of flames given by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution in 1848, as part of the series of Christmas lectures for young people founded by Faraday in 1825 and still given there every year.
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series continues today, broadcast on the BBC. Following this tradition, the Faraday Institution runs education and public engagement activities. In 2019, it launched a public discussion series on batteries with the Royal Institution [5] [6] and continued the programme from 2020 through 2024. [7] [8]
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.
Faraday (standing behind a desk) delivering a Christmas Lecture to the general public at the Royal Institution in 1856. Between 1827 and 1860 at the Royal Institution in London, Faraday gave a series of nineteen Christmas lectures for young people, a series which continues today. The objective of the lectures was to present science to the ...
Coat of Arms of Benjamin Thompson. Thompson was born in rural Woburn, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, on 26 March 1753; his birthplace is preserved as a museum. He was educated mainly at the village school, although he sometimes walked almost ten miles to Cambridge with the older Loammi Baldwin to attend lectures by Professor John Winthrop of Harvard College.