A GREAT CENTENARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 March 1929, Page 4

A GREAT CENTENARY

ELECTRO-MAGNETIC INDUCTION

Arrangements are being made in England for (lie celebration of tin; centenary in 1931 of Faraday's discovery of electro-magnetic induction. The third week in September has been provisionally appointed for the celebrations, which will probably be organised in conjunction with those of the centenary of the Association for the Advancement of Science. Speaking at n preliminary meeting at the Royal Institution, which was Faraday's home and workshop for half a century and the scene of his great discovery, Sir William Bragg, director of the institution, said they had on the table in that room the. page > of his work which recorded that discovery and the ring which he had used ill his experiments. On that discovery, of course, there rested a vast body of scientific development, and also the industrial development of the last part of last century. Faraday's work had touched so many developments in science and industry that a great number of bodies were interested. There were all the great developments in electricity, electro-chemistry, and ill numberless other directions and they could easily realise that all over the world contacts were made with the work which he did in that building. The centenary would mark the work of a very great Englishman, and it was valuable that as a nation they should have this opportunity of realising how much they did contribute during the past 100 years to the science and industry of the world. It was also mentioned that plans were being made for the celebration in 1031 of the centenary of the birth of James Clerk Maxwell, who, in a, sense was the interpreter of Faraday and whose elec-tro-magnetic theory was practically the foundation of the enormous development of radio-tclegrsshv