Faraday, Michael (1791-1867)

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
Was a British physicist and chemist.
His experiments are the basis for our understanding of the forces of Electricity and Magnetism.
His father was a blacksmith and Faraday had very little formal education, but he read science books in the shop where he worked.
He went to Humphry Davy's lectures at the Royal Institution in London and persuaded Davy to let him work as his assistant.
In 1821, he began to study the magnetic effects of an electric current which Oersted had discovered.
He become the director of the Royal Institution in 1825 and in 1831 he found that when he moved a magnet through a coil of wire,
an electric current was produced in the wire.
This enabled him to make the first electrical generator or dynamo. He also investigated Electrolysis.


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