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Michael Faraday

The bookbinder's apprentice who became the greatest experimentalist of his age: the electric motor, electromagnetic induction and the generator, field lines, electrolysis, the Faraday cage, and the Christmas Lectures, all with almost no mathematics.

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How did Michael Faraday invent? – with David Ricketts The Royal Institution · 57 min
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Prereqs: Electricity & magnetism basics. Next: James Clerk Maxwell. Sources: The Royal Institution archives; Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon, *Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field* (2014).
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