Michael Faraday, his life and work / by Silvanus P. Thompson.

  • Silvanus P. Thompson
Date:
1898
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Credit: Michael Faraday, his life and work / by Silvanus P. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he lived was so great. For forty years he was a living and inspiring voice in the Royal Institution, beyond all question the greatest scientific expositor of his time. Throughout almost the whole of that time his original researches in physics, and chiefly in electricity, were extending the boundaries of know¬ ledge and laying the foundations not only for the great developments of electrical engineering of the last twenty years but for those still greater develop¬ ments in the theories of electricity, magnetism, and light which are every year being extended and made fruitful. Were there no other reason than these developments in practice and theory, they would amply justify the effort to review now, after so many years, the position of Faraday amongst the eminent men of the nineteeth century. Those who were intimately acquainted with him are a fast dwindling band. In the recollection of such as have survived him, his image lives and moves, surrounded with gracious memories, a vivid personality instinct with rare and unselfish kindliness. But the survivors are few, and their ranks grow thinner with each succeeding year. And so it comes about that the task of writing of his life and work has been entrusted to one who never ceases to regret that he never met Faraday.
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