Today we celebrate the birthday of scientist Michael Faraday (1791-1867). What comes to mind when you think of Faraday? The Faraday cage, of course! But like many other 19th scientists generally ...

We take so much of modern technology for granted: radio, telephones, film and television, computers, and the Internet all enable us to communicate at the speed of light. But we would not have any of ...

Born the son of a blacksmith and lacking formal education, Faraday self-taught science while working at a bookbinding shop.

“The device appeared to violate the conclusion that any conductor at rest with respect to Earth’s surface cannot generate power from its magnetic field,” Princeton’s Christopher Chyba added in a press ...

Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

On the latest episode of "Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey," program host Neil de Grasse Tyson focused on 19th century British scientist Michael Faraday, whom we can thank for much of the technology we ...

Known as the “father of electrical engineering,” you probably know Michael Faraday is most famous for his contribution to the field of electromagnetism. Sept. 11, 2017 Known as the “father of ...

Michael Faraday is best remembered as a scientist. But during his time, he was also a scientific investigator—looking into the origins of explosions and accidents. After one great tragedy he filed a ...

“I express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of ...

AT the opening of the period covered by this the fifth volume of Faraday's Diary? Faraday was fifty-five years of age, and signs of that failure of memory which clouded his later years were increasing ...