Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

AT the opening of the period covered by this the fifth volume of Faraday's Diary? Faraday was fifty-five years of age, and signs of that failure of memory which clouded his later years were increasing ...

Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in London to a local blacksmith and a housemaid. Despite these humble beginnings, Faraday is remembered among the most respected scientists in history, pioneering the ...

Nineteenth-century English scientist Faraday, who made the revolutionary discovery that electricity, magnetism and light are all related, personified the self-made man. Son of a blacksmith, Faraday ...

Although new electric motor types are still being invented, the basic principle of an electric motor has changed little in the past century-and-a-half: a stator and a rotor built of magnetic materials ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mary O'Grady, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Image: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images The public’s trust in scientists ...