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Michael Faraday Research Paper

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Michael Faraday, son of James Faraday and Margarat Hastwell, was born on September 22, 1791 in Newington Butts, England. Michael was born into a poor family. Michaels father, James, was a member of the Glassite, which was a small christian church founded in 1730 in Scotland, for which he was called a Sandemanian. James was also a blacksmith who had left his smithy in Outhgrill in 1791. This move was done in order for James to pursue work in London. However, the ill health of James made him only capable of providing the bare minimum of basic needs for the family. After his increase in ill health, James died in 1809, leaving Michaels mother, Margarat, to be the mainstay of the family. Margarat did what she could with what she had and remained …show more content…

He started working at the institution on March 1, 1813 at age twenty-one. In working at there, Michael was earning a good salary. He was even given a room to stay at in the attic of the Royal Institution. Life was going good for Michael. His job as a chemical assistant involved having to prepare apparatus for the lectures and experiments. In doing this, Michael had to work with nitrogen trichloride, the explosive that had injured Humphrey Davy, and gave him the opportunity to obtain the job. Faraday, himself, was even knocked unconscious by a nitrogen chloride explosion. This explosion had also hurt Davy once again, leading to an end in using that substance. After a brief seven months of work at the institution, Davy had taken Michael as his secretary on a tour of Europe that had lasted a year and a half. On this trip, Michael learned a lot from other scientists as well. He had met Alessandro Volta in Milan and André-Marie Ampère in Paris. However, his time on the tour was not all pleasant. Michael had to cater to Mr. Davy and his wife, this was disliked very much by him and made much of the tour unpleasant. Mr. Davys wife refused to treat Michael equal because he had come from a lower class family.

Furthermore, as opposed to his unpleasant and educational tour, Michaels life in London was taking a turn for the better. Upon return, the Royal Institution had renewed Faradays contract and raised his salary. …show more content…

During Faradays lifetime, the word “Physicist” had began being the word of choice to describe his position. Michael, however, did not like the word and preferred to describe himself as a philosopher. Faraday was well known for not giving up on his ideas. He devoted himself to the world of science and that gained him the respect he earned. He was one to discover things through experimentation, a habit picked up early in life. Faraday would experiment any idea that came off as a good one, to him. He continued his efforts through experimenting, even through multiple failures until he succeeded, unless, his intuition was proved wrong by mother nature, which were only in rare cases. In 1821, with his discovery of Electromagnetic Rotation, Faraday made an apparatus in which electricity flowed through wires into cups of mercury, which served as a good electricity conductor and another cup contained a metal wire that rotated continuously around the central magnet as long as electric current was flowing through the circuit. After John Dalton’s statement that all gases could be liquified by the use of low temperatures and/or high pressures, in 1802, Faraday backed it up with hard evidence of his own. He did this by applying pressure to liquefy chlorine gas and ammonia gas for the

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