Faraday&#x27;s Famous Inventions

Faraday's Famous Inventions

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We can scarcely imagine a world devoid of electricity, but today's power grids and high-tech home appliances would never have come to pass without the bold experiments of one ambitious Englishman. This program illustrates the life and accomplishments of Michael Faraday, a self-educated member of the Georgian-era working class who made groundbreaking discoveries about electromagnetism and became a world-famous scientist. Beginning with his birth in the early years of the Industrial Revolution, the film covers Faraday's apprenticeship with Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution; his creation of the Voltaic cell; his invention of the world's first electric motor; his work with a moving magnet and an induction ring, laying the foundation for large-scale generation of electricity; and his theory about the lack of electric charge inside a hollow conductor-daringly borne out by host Adam Hart-Davis inside an immense "Faraday cage.