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OCR: MICHAEL FARADAY (1791 -1867) HERE ARE electric motors 1n most household appliances, from cassette players to washing mach ines. The design of all these motors is based on the principles discovered more than 150 years ago by Michael Faraday, the greatest of all English experimental physicists. First learning about science from an encyclopedia, Faraday was then lucky enough to become au apprentice the noted English chemist Humphry Davy (1778 1829 Scientists at the time had just realized how to produce electricity, and were looking for ways of applying Faraday discoveries were perfectly timed exploit this new power ALSO STORY MCHAEI