Born the son of a blacksmith and lacking formal education, Faraday self-taught science while working at a bookbinding shop.

Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

Nineteenth-century English scientist Faraday, who made the revolutionary discovery that electricity, magnetism and light are all related, personified the self-made man. Son of a blacksmith, Faraday ...

The bearings of zoology on human welfare — as illustrated by the relation of insects, protozoa, and helminthes to the spread ... of disease in man — have become increasingly evident ... At the time of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The British Journal for the History of Science (BJHS) publishes scholarly papers and review articles on all aspects of the history ...

Although new electric motor types are still being invented, the basic principle of an electric motor has changed little in the past century-and-a-half: a stator and a rotor built of magnetic materials ...