home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ The New Way Things Work / DKTNWTW.ISO / INVENTOR / F / IFAR0M.DIB (.png) next >
Bitmap Image  |  1998-09-16  |  249KB  |  540x450  |  8-bit (181 colors)
Labels: text | clothing | person | human face
OCR: A MICHAEL FARADAY Faraday bound his detailed notes 1791-1867 of the lectures into a book and E presented them to Davy, requesting F a job. Davy took him on as his assistant in the laboratories of the G Royal Institution, a place where H much scientific research took place. Faraday worked there for the rest K of his life and carried out research 1. into electricity. In 1831, he M invented the transformer. In the same year, he also discovered the principle for an electric generator. P Q M ICHAEL FARADAY was born In 1832, the Frenchman R near London, one of ten Hippolyte Pixii was the first person S children in a working-class family. T At the age of 14 he became a book- to incorporate Faraday's principle into a practical generator. 11 binder's apprentice and, inspired by the science books he bound, he W attended lectures given by the great Y scientist Humphry Davy. Electric Generator Transformer Z M