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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...