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... Sketching the Scientist The friendly younger rival of The Royal Society, The Royal Institution was founded in 1799, Michael Faraday started the Christmas Lectures for young people here, which are nowtelevised in a lectu re theatre that was rebui It i ...
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... William Wilberforce On the Abolition of Slavery (1789) Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Michael Faraday Experimental Researches on Electricity (1839) Richard Arkwright Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine ...
... good cigars , mulled claret and . That may have been true once , but no more . It is rumoured that when the physicist Michael Faraday died in his chair at the Athenaeum , it was three days before anyone realised . Now , surely , that would be no more than ...
... referring to John H arrison, the 18th-century clock maker (M arch 2). I agree that the UK is poor at honouring its heroes. Michael Faraday, for instance, has had a banknote, but South wa rk Council's acknowledgement of his birthplace is pitiful. However, I ...
... shoulders he had to stand on to make his observation . So as well as Albert circa 1905 , we got to meet British genius Michael Faraday shaking up the 19 th century , French physicist Lavosier , whose brilliant career was cut short by a guillotine , Lise ...
... known as the R oyal Institution. Its 19th-century office-holders, who worked in its laboratories, included Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday and John Tyndall (who discovered why the sky is blue). Today, its council still contains the leading scientists in the ...
... developed the first theory of electrochemical action and isolated the elements sodium and barium, among others. In 181 3 Michael Faraday joined the Royal Institution as Davy's chemical assistant. H e became its Fullerian professor of chemistry in 1833. Faraday's ...
... Mordan & Co, a firm whose history in one form or another ran from about 1815 to 1941. The first Sampson, an associate of Michael Faraday and former assistant to Joseph Bramah, the lockmaker, was the inventor of the propelling pencil, and his firm went on ...
... himself. l\lore bedrooms were built in 180 I. Among the drawings in the RIBA is 4-Harriet j ane Moore's 1852 watercolour of Michael Faraday in his laboratory 5-A pre-1830s survey of the first floor, as altered by Webster. The lecture theatre is on the left town ...
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