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At the end

... At the end Many have written of Michael Faraday and of his austere, independent life. They have found it curious that this boy, the son of a poor blacksmith, should reject those very things of life which others strive so hard to attain. Perhaps the answer ...

Published: Tuesday 18 May 1954
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Stamps of genius

... a 31p stamp depicts the radar developed by Robert Watson Watt. Two 22p stamps mark the bicentenaries of the births of Michael Faraday, the father of electricity, and Charles Babbage, the pioneer of computer science. ‘Recession peaking’ The UK recession ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Dr Richard Dawkins with his actress wife Lalia Ward

... won the Tech Prize for the best television documentary science programme. Other honours include the 1990 Royal Society Michael Faraday Award and last year the Nakayama Prize for Achievement in Human Science. Some of the primary BEd graduates. i , . I 0 ...

Published: Saturday 08 July 1995
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TOMORROW

... 11.10—S0S Coastguard. The Gas Chamber. 11.30—Take Nobody’s Word For It. Prof lan Fells looks at the life and work of Michael Faraday. 12.00—The Garden Party. With guests including Stephane Grappelli and Martin Taylor. 12.55—Scottish News. I.oo—News; Weather ...

Published: Tuesday 12 July 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE COURIER

... scientists who have made and are making an enormous contribution to our prosperity and intellectual reputation. So she has Michael Faraday (electricity) in the hall and Isaac Newton (gravitational force) in the dining room. In other rooms she has paint ings ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Tealing

... story of famous scientist A fascinating fragment of local history is contained The Hammer and the Anvil,” a background to Michael Faraday, just published by Dr J. F. Riley, well known in Dundee medical circles. Few Dundonians are aware of the link between ...

Published: Tuesday 18 May 1954
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

%« ~‘ PROF'S RETURN, VISIT

... familiar lecture halls of Japan, when he delivers a series of talks to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of scientist Michael Faraday. He told his audience of THE Faraday's achievements as a scientist, despite his lack of professional scientific training ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 347 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The frigate Unicorn, foreground, and the RRS Discovery in Victoria Dock, Dundee. Inset, Mr Hamish Robertson, ..

... t manager of the Unicorn Preservation Trust. tourist at THIS YEAR we celebrate the bicentenary of a great scientist, Michael Faraday, who discovered the principle of electricity, invented the dynamo and gave us the terms cathode, electrode and anode ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 438 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

We Knew About A-Bombs In 1939

... because it told us what forces of nature there were for app.i-eation Had it not been for the physicists, Glavani and Michael faraday, we should not have known to-day the nature of electricity. would still have been for the common man merely a flash of ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1950
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SATURDAY'S TELEVISION AND RADIO PROGRAMMES 6.so—Open University. 6.50 Maths: Modelling Pollution. 7.15 Maths: ..

... from the week's Late Shows. (5). 7.2o—News And Sport; Weather. 7.3s—Faradays Dream. A dramatised portrait of scientist Michael Faraday. Born 200 years ago. Faraday's discoveries challenged the scientific maxims of the day and formed the basis for much ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 411 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Trip of a lifetime could have been even better

... Elizabeth and Catherine Dickens, parents and wife of Charles (who is buried in Westminster Abbey); LONDON DIARY scientist Michael Faraday; Philip Harben, the first TV cook; Elizabeth Lilley, midwife to Queen Victoria; and actor Patrick Wymark. Also in the ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1995
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 538 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Cockney coffers boosted by cash and Czechs

... for navigation marks and lighthouses. The 57-foot octagonal lighthouse, at Trinity Buoy Wharf, was built about 1860. Michael Faraday, scientific adviser to Trinity House, carried out electrical and optical experiments at the wharf, but the lighthouse ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1996
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 501 | Page: 12 | Tags: none