Michael Faraday

by John Hall Gladstone (Creator)

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244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1874

About the author

1827-1902

Reviews

[Abdullah Almuslem · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of us remember the Faraday law from our days in School in physics and Chemistry, but few of us knew anything about this brilliant man. Michal Faraday was a British philosopher who was raised in a poor family and had little Education in his youth. When young, he got a job in a bookstore as bookbinder, and from there he read everything in his hand and made of himself a Self-Educated man. He dedicated his life for science and spent his whole life in his laboratory experimenting. He was deeply religious man –a Sandemanians- a unique sector of Christianity, and refused many titles a given to him, and distributed a lot of money to charity. A very interesting man to read about.

When a young aspirant asked Faraday the secret of his success as a scientific investigator, he replied, "The secret is comprised in three words—Work, Finish, Publish"

Very interesting Read

[J O'Toole · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I beg to thank you for your papers, but have wasted more thought and time on so-called spiritual manifestation than it has deserved. Unless the spirits are utterly contemptible , they will find means to draw my attention."

Michael Faraday would not be messed about by the ghosties.

Requiring a break from the dystopia (i.e. Earth right now) I decided to inspire myself with my hero who, not content with being a mere genius and invent the first electric motor and electromagnetic induction, could also play the flute, sing bass and locate that splinter of iron that you stepped on a while back with his trusty pocket magnet.

If I recall correctly, Jane Austen alluded to writing Mr Darcy as there was no real man that existed like him.

She clearly never met Michael Faraday.

And this Armstrong and Miller skit is funny.

[Carol Spears · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the better of the two biographies of Michael Faraday that I have read. Both were written by acquaintances of his and neither was written chronologically. Instead of chronological, the "character" of the subject was build by exploring time independent qualities, like Character, Experience, Method of Working. I would have preferred a chronological biography.