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Article: Michael Faraday, Electricity and God. .(Faraday: The Life)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Faraday: The Life. James Hamilton. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]25.00. 465 pages. ISBN 0-00- 257082-3.
On 3rd September 1821 Michael Faraday was at work in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London's Albermarle Street. As a general rule, company was not welcome while he was about his experiments--except, that is, for children. Faraday shared their open-mindedness, their lightness of intellect, grace and innocence. So, as he tinkered with the rather ramshackle apparatus on his workbench, his fourteen year-old brother-in-law, George, looked on. What the boy witnessed was the very first flickerings of the electric motor--an invention which would ...