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The biggest need of today’s human being is electricity, without electric power and
Generator no work will happen. In the whole world, electricity is produced by the
Principle of induction. So let’s know about the starting of electricity and the interesting
The story behind it.
Early Life:
Born in 1791 to a poor family in the Newington, Surrey
village of South London, Faraday had a difficult childhood riddled with
poverty. Faraday's mother stayed at home to take care of Michael and his
Three siblings and his father was a blacksmith who was
often too ill to work steadily, which meant that
the children frequently went without food. Despite this,
Faraday grew up a curious child, questioning
everything and always feeling an urgent need to know
more. He learned to read at Sunday school for the
Christian sect the family belonged to called the
Sandemanians, which greatly influenced the way he
approached
and interpreted nature. Michael Faraday started working as a bookbinder at the age of 13
only. New day new kind of books and a
strong feeling (replace) to read them, the boy was taking so much
interest in physics books and experiments.
In 1813 faraday went to the show of Sir Humphry Davy, in his
show Humphry used to talk about the
electricity, that day faraday wrote his whole lecture and principles
which Sir Humphry told the audience.
Faraday printed those notes as a book and sent to Davy, Sir
Davy was so much impressed by Faraday’s
work and he called him to join his lab. After some days
faraday started working there as Davy’s
associate.
Discovering Electromagnetic Induction:
In 1821
Hans Christian Ørsted told that the electricity can produce magnetism, Faraday got an idea
to
produce
electricity by a magnet. Faraday made a paper roll on which he made a coil of
wire and
connected that
to a galvanometer which measures the electricity and put a magnet nearby Days
passes
but electricity
didn’t flow in the wire, one day faraday was so much disappointed with this
experiment
and he pulled
the coil to throw it, suddenly a fluctuation occurred into the galvanometer as
the coil
moved. From this incident, he gave the principle of magnetic induction. Faraday concluded that
the
relative speed
is necessary between the coil and magnet for the flow of current. On this
principle only
the electricity
is produced worldwide.
Scientific achievements:
discovered that the optical properties of gold colloids differed
from those of the corresponding
might be considered to be the birth of nanoscience.
Experiments, Death, and
Legacy:
Faraday
continued his electrical experiments
throughout much of his later life. In 1832, he
proved
that the electricity induced from a magnet, voltaic electricity produced by a
battery, and
static
electricity was all the same. He also did significant work in
electrochemistry, stating the
First
and Second Laws of Electrolysis, which laid the foundation for that field and
another
modern
industry.
Faraday
passed away in his home in Hampton Court on August 25, 1867, at the age of 75.
He
was
buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London. A memorial plaque was
set up in his honor at
Westminster
Abbey Church, near Isaac Newton's burial spot.
Faraday's
influence extended to a great many leading scientists. Albert Einstein was
known to
have
had a portrait of Faraday on his wall in his study, where it
hung alongside pictures of
legendary
physicists Sir Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell.
Among
those who praised his achievements were Ernest Rutherford, the father of
nuclear
physics.
Of Faraday he once stated,
"When we consider the magnitude and the extent of his discoveries and their influence on the
progress of science and of industry, there is
no honor too great to pay to the memory of
Faraday, one of the greatest scientific
discoverers of all time."
Book Published by Michael Faraday:
1.The Discovery Of Induced Electric Currents
2.Experimental Researches in Electricity
3.Experimental Researches In Chemistry And Physics Kindle Edition
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