... was born in 1791 in Newington Butts, in south London. He began his researches into electricity in 1812, and made his first electric battery. The following year he became a laboratory assistant to Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution, after the latter was seriously injured – and temporarily blinded – as a result of one of his experiments.
In 1821 Faraday began experimenting with electromagnetism; ten years later he discovered the induction of electric currents and made the first dynamo. In 1833 he succeeded Davy as Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution. His lectures there were very popular, and he published many treatises on various scientific subjects.
He died in 1867, aged 75, and was buried in Higthgate Cemetery.
© Macclesfield Quiz League 2019