Faraday
['færədeɪ] or ['færədi]
Definition
(noun.) the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867).
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Examples
- In the generation of this mighty force improvements have been made, but those of greatest power still involve the principles discovered by Faraday and Henry seventy years ago. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Besides, Edison, like Faraday, was never a mathematician, and has had little personal use for arithmetic beyond that which is called mental. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Faraday, to whom also was given Promethean inspiration, procured some of Walker's matches and brought them to public notice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Henry in America was, contemporaneously with Faraday, developing electricity by means of magnetic induction. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Professor Wheatstone has recently contrived an improvement in his index telegraph, which was described by Professor Faraday in a lecture at the Royal Institution in June last. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Dr. Jackson was intensely interested in electricity, and more especially in some experiments that Faraday had lately been making in regard to it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The ties that bind electricity and magnetism in twinship of relation and interaction were detected, and Faraday's work in induction gave the world at once the dynamo and the motor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That is what I get for putting so much money in a new suit, was the laconic remark of the youth, who was more than delighted to pick up a complete set of Faraday's works about the same time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ether as a chemical product has been known for several centuries, and as early as 1818 Faraday pointed out the similarity between the effects of ether and nitrous oxide gas. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It has been said that although Oersted was the discoverer of electro-magnetism and Ampère its expounder, Faraday made the science of magnets electrically what it is at the present day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1867, the same year that Faraday died, and too late for him to witness its glory, came out the most powerful magneto-electric machine that had yet been produced. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Why, sir, said Faraday, doing his best to bring things home to him, presently you will be able to tax it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Professor Faraday as early as 1824 had noticed a change in colour gradually produced in glass containing oxide of manganese by exposure to the rays of the sun. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Absorption machines were the outgrowth of Faraday’s observations in 1823. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Faraday was a chemist, and Davy's most brilliant pupil and efficient assistant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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