Michael Faraday And The Royal Institution

Author : J.M Thomas
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750301459
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution written by J.M Thomas and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century technology is based and readers of this book will enjoy finding out in how many ways we are indebted to him. The story of his life speaks to us across the years and is a fascinating read, especially when the tale is told with the understanding and gusto that Professor Thomas-one of the UK's leading scientists-brings to the telling. Faraday took great trouble to make the latest discoveries of science, his own and others', intelligible to the layman, and the tradition he fostered has been kept alive ever since, so that the Royal Institution is as well known for its contributions to education as for its research. Written in a concise, nontechnical style, Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place is a human account that provides an introduction to the roots of modern science and ways in which scientists work. The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings, cartoons, photographs, and letters-many never before published. There is no similar book on Faraday that interprets his genius in modern, everyday terms, making it understandable, interesting, and exciting reading for scientists and nonscientists alike.

Author : J.M Thomas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1482229498
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution written by J.M Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-educated man who knew no mathematics, Michael Faraday rose from errand boy to become one of Britain's greatest scientists. Faraday made the discoveries upon which most of twentieth-century technology is based and readers of this book will enjoy finding out in how many ways we are indebted to him. The story of his life speaks to us across the years and is a fascinating read, especially when the tale is told with the understanding and gusto that Professor Thomas-one of the UK's leading scientists-brings to the telling. Faraday took great trouble to make the latest discoveries of science, his own and others', intelligible to the layman, and the tradition he fostered has been kept alive ever since, so that the Royal Institution is as well known for its contributions to education as for its research. Written in a concise, nontechnical style, Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution: The Genius of Man and Place is a human account that provides an introduction to the roots of modern science and ways in which scientists work. The book is lavishly illustrated with drawings, cartoons, photographs, and letters-many never before published. There is no similar book on Faraday that interprets his genius in modern, everyday terms, making it understandable, interesting, and exciting reading for scientists and nonscientists alike.

Author : John Meurig Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution written by John Meurig Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Faraday
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 0863412491
Total Pages : 864 pages
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Download or read book The Correspondence of Michael Faraday written by Michael Faraday and published by IET. This book was released on 1991 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 covers the 1830s, a period when Faraday pursued the consequences of his discovery of electromagnetic induction and revised entirely the theories of electrochemistry and the nature of electricity. His correspondents include scientists of the day as well as antiquaries, military men, artists and politicians.

Author : Conversations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations on Chemistry written by Conversations and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin A. Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190283556
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday written by Colin A. Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as "little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school." Yet from such basics, he became one of the most prolific and wide-ranging experimental scientists who ever lived. As a bookbinder's apprentice with a voracious appetite for learning, he read every book he got his hands on. In 1812 he attended a series of chemistry lectures by Sir Humphry Davy at London's prestigious Royal Institution. He took copious and careful notes, and, in the hopes of landing a scientific job, bound them and sent them to the lecturer. Davy was impressed enough to hire the 21-year-old as a laboratory assistant. In his first decade at the Institution, Faraday discovered benzene, isobutylene, and two chlorides of carbon. But despite these and other accomplishments in chemistry, he is chiefly remembered for his work in physics. In 1831 he proved that magnetism could generate an electric current, thereby establishing the field of electromagnetism and leading to the invention of the dynamo. In addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career. An engaging public speaker, he gave popular lectures on scientific subjects, and helped found a tradition of scientific education for children and laypeople that continues to this day. Oxford Portraits in Science is an ongoing series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

Author : John Tyndall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faraday as a Discoverer written by John Tyndall and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Publisher : New York : The Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.B1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday written by Silvanus Phillips Thompson and published by New York : The Macmillan. This book was released on 1898 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher : Correspondence of John Tyndall
ISBN 13 : 9780822946083
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 9 written by Iwan Rhys Morus and published by Correspondence of John Tyndall. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ninth volume of the Tyndall correspondence covers the period from February 1, 1865, to November 29, 1866. Tyndall was by now in his mid-forties and in the prime of life. His career as a man of science was firmly established and flourishing. He had been professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution for more than a dozen years and established himself as Michael Faraday's successor. This volume also covers the period of Faraday's increasing illness and withdrawal from public life, which had a significant impact on Tyndall both personally and in terms of his standing in the scientific world.

Author : Darcy Pattison
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 168444327X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burn: Michael Faraday's Candle written by Darcy Pattison and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: WHAT MAKES A CANDLE BURN? Solid wax is somehow changed into light and heat. But how? Travel back in time to December 28, 1848 in London, England to one of the most famous juvenile science Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. British scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) encouraged kids to carefully observe a candle and to try to figure out how it burned. Known as one of the best science experimenters ever, Faraday’s passion was always to answer the basic questions of science: “What is the cause? Why does it occur?” Since Faraday’s lecture, “The Chemical History of a Candle,” was published in 1861, it’s never been out of print. Oddly, till now, it’s never been published as a children’s picture book. Faraday originally gave seven lectures on how a candle burns. Pattison has adapted the first 6000-word lecture to about 650 words for modern elementary students.