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Michael Faraday (Evergreen Physicist)

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One of the more unusual finds in our collections: A lock of Michael Faraday’s hair.

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How I met Mrs. Jordan

How I met Mrs. Jordan

Dora (front) as the comic muse while a creep looks on My blog post about Dora Jordan is up on Sheroes and it’s my birthday. What could be more magical? But how did I, who tends to write about science, become a fan of this famous comic actress? I met her through Michael Faraday, England’s greatest chemist. I had planned to write a short story with him in it and in preparation read his biography.…

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On this day in 1846, Michael Faraday gave a lecture at the Royal Institution which included his thoughts on ‘Ray-Vibrations’. 

This lecture, James Clerk Maxwell later stated, was the beginning of the field theory of electromagnetism.

Within the lecture Faraday dismissed the notion of atoms vibrating to produce light waves or radiant heat in the aether and instead argued that distributed throughout space were lines of force and their vibrations produced light. Where these lines met, matter was observed.

‘The view which I am so bold as to put forth considers, therefore, radiation as a high species of vibration in the lines of force which are known to connect particles and also masses of matter together. It endeavours to dismiss the aether, but not the vibrations.’

The images are of Faraday’s original lecture notes from 1846.

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1838 letter from Charles Babbage to Michael Faraday about the Christmas Lectures:

Dear Faraday,

The lectures you give at Xmas although nominally for the very young, are yet very captivating for older heads; and I hear frequent regrets from fair ladies that as they only come to London in the Spring they lose this treat.

It has been suggested that a short course at Easter would gratify many who find it impossible to be present at Xmas.

I have undertaken at the desire of one of the fairest to urge this on you with all the claims of friendship.

I pray you therefore if possible accede to the request and by adding the attractions of beauty with those of knowledge render them yet more irresistible.

Believe me,

      Dear Faraday,

         Ever Sincerely Yours

C. Babbage

Thursday 15 March 1838

From the Archives of the Royal Institution

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Michael Faraday, R.I.P. (died 25 August 1867)