Michael Faraday made many advances in chemistry, but is remembered for his work with electricity. In 1812 he started researching electricity and made his first electrical cell ('battery'). The following year he was made assistant to Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution in London. In 1821 he began studying electromagnetism, and ten years later produced an electric motor, a dynamo and a transformer, all in the same year. He went on to research the effects of magnetism on light and discovered that all matter was magnetically affected.
