By Frank James
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) used to be some of the most very important males of technology in 19th century Britain. His discoveries of electro-magnetic rotations (1821), and electro-magnetic induction (1831) laid the principles of the fashionable electric undefined. His discovery of the magneto-optical impact and of diamagnetism (1845) led him to formulate the fi eld idea of electro-magnetism, which kinds one of many cornerstones of contemporary physics. those and a complete host of different basic discoveries in physics and chemistry, along with his lecturing on the Royal establishment, his paintings for the nation, his spiritual ideals, his loss of mathematical skill, make Faraday some of the most interesting scientists ever. all of the features of his lifestyles and paintings are refl ected in his correspondence. accurately, quantity one, which covers the years 1811-1831, used to be released within the 12 months of the bicentenary of his beginning. It includes correspondence (previously unpublished) not just with modern males of technological know-how (such as Davy Ampére and Herschel) but in addition with significant fi gures in lots of different parts of early 19th century society. the whole Correspondence is a useful source for historians, philosophers and sociologists of technology, in addition to historians of the 19th century and the commercial revolution. it is going to even be of serious curiosity to electric engineers, physicists and chemists who need to know extra approximately probably the most eminent fi gures within the heritage
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With this power I have decomposed the Sulphate of Magnesia, the Sulphatfe] of copper, the Acetate of Lead, & I at first th[ou]ght also Water, but my conclusions in that < respect> were perhaps too hastily made. I inserted the wires in a portion of the water that I took out of the cistern, and of course not pure a strong action commenced: a dense, I may really say dense white stream of matter descended from the Positive wire; & bubbles rose rapidly & in quick succession from the Negative wire. On per[cei]ving this effect take place, I concluded I had decomposed the water; but after a time, I perceived that the action slackened, the white cloud was Letter 3 scarcely perceptible at the wire, tho' by the former action the lower part of the solution was perfectly opaque: & the bubbles nearly ceased.
DRUMMOND, Thomas (1797-1840, DNB): Officer in Royal Engineers. Worked on Ordnance Survey of Ireland. DRUMMOND: Bankers to, among others, Davy and the Athenaeum. See Bolitho and Peel (1985). DULONG, Pierre Louis (1785-1838, DSB): Professor of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique. FARADAY, Margaret, nee Hastwell (1764-1838, GRO under Farraday): Mother of Faraday. xliv FARADAY, Margaret see Barnard, Margaret. FARADAY, Robert (1788-1846, GRO): Brother of Faraday. Gas engineer. FARADAY, Sarah, nee Barnard (1800-1879, GRO): Daughter of Edward and Mary Barnard.
Xli BARNARD, Edward (1796-1867, GRO): Son of Edward and Mary Barnard. Brother of Sarah Faraday. Silversmith. See Grimwade (1982), 431. BARNARD, Jane (1803-1842, GRO): Daughter of Edward and Mary Barnard. Sister of Sarah Faraday. BARNARD, John (1797-1880, GRO): Son of Edward and Mary Barnard. Sister of Sarah Faraday. Silversmith. See Grimwade (1982), 431. BARNARD, Margaret, nee Faraday (1802-1862, GRO): Wife of John Barnard and younger sister of Faraday. BARNARD, Mary, nee Boosey (1769-1847, GRO): Wife of Edward Barnard (1767-1855).