FARADAY CENTENARY.
A POPULAR LECTURE
- This year sees the centenary of the discovery by Michael Faraday of the principles of electric motors and generators of electricity. The Auckland Institute has arranged a public lecture in the University Hall on Monday next by Professor P. W. Burbidge on the life of Faraday and on his great discoveries. Faraday, the son of a blacksmith, commenced his life as a bookbinder, but became interested in science, and rose to be the foremost experimental scientist of the world, making fundamental discoveries both in chemistry and in physLs. The culmination of these was the discovery in 1831 of the phenomena of the excitation of electricity in wires moved near magnets. This led to the construction of a machine to generate electricity in this manner—the first dynamo. Faraday de-voted his life to research, and for this reason refused professional work, and_ had, till his death in 1867, but a small income as director of the Royal Institution Laboratory, where he had entered zs assistant to Sir Humphrey Davy, the famous chemist. The address to be given by Profe? jot Burbidge will be illustrated with slides and experiments.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 210, 5 September 1931, Page 7
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