Biography of Michael Faraday ~ Suman Blogz

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Michael faraday was a leading physicists and pioneer in the field of Electrochemistry. His life is an example for all the dreamers of science who believe in himself and science. James Faraday, his father, was a blacksmith while his mother Margaret hastwell was daughter of a farmer. Michael was born on 22 september, 1791. His school teaching was, as would have expected, of the most elementary kind and ended at the age of 12.
Faraday worked as book binder because it was necessary for the poor family and he had to help his parents. But these days were passed among books and many of those books dealt with science, particularly with chemistry and Electricity, fields to which to which he found drawn himself. Michael was very much interested in attending public meetings and lectures, the one among the famous who impressed him is Sir Humphry Davy. Michael made careful notes of these lectures, wrote them out, illustrated them with his own drawings, and bounded them together, and the whole making was a beautifully bound book of 386 pages. He sent them with a letter to davy, asking for a job in his lab. Then he was appointed as a lab assistant and his chief job was to clean lab and repair apparatus.
In Oct 1813, davy set out on a scientific tour to europe and he took Faraday with him as his assistant and secretary. He got a chance to met Ampere and other scientists in Paris and enriched his knowledge. After his arrival from London in following years he made many investigations. First, he wrote a history of progress of Electromagnetism and then introduced new kinds of glasses and the alloys of steels. In 1823, prepared the liquified chlorine for the first time. In 1825, he wrote a paper on new compounds of carbon and hydrogen and he announced the discovery of Benzol. He was then worked to induce electric current and thus he was able to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and discover the first dynamo.