Electric Life of Michael Faraday HBDJ 2006 Alan Hirshfeld Electricity Scientist

Description: The Electric Life of Michael Faraday HBDJ 2006 Alan Hirshfeld Electricity Scientist The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirshfeld The book features a unique historical examination of Michael Faraday with lots of interesting information and exhaustive research. 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 (1791–1867) was apprenticed at an early age to a bookbinder, who encouraged him to pursue the interest in science that he'd gained from reading the books that crossed his workbench. By a great stroke of luck, he went to work for the eminent scientist Sir Humphry Davy. As physicist Hirshfeld (Parallax) relates, from that point on, Faraday proved unstoppable as he made important discoveries in every field he applied himself to. His breakthrough came when he discovered that he could induce an electric current by moving a magnet inside a coil of wire. This led to his development of the dynamo, precursor to the electric motor. Equally important, Faraday hypothesized that electromagnetism extended into space via lines of flux. Faraday's background in mathematics was weak, so he couldn't prove this, but a young scientist he befriended late in his career, James Clerk Maxwell, finally did. In an elegantly written biography, Hirshfeld, winner of a Templeton Foundation prize for an essay on Faraday, captures the scientist's rough-and-tumble times, and most readers will be able to follow his clear descriptions of Faraday's achievements. Copyright-2006 Pages: 258 pages Publisher: Raincoast Books The book measures approx. 8 ½ by 6 inches. The cover is nice and clean, the dust jacket is very nice with some rubbing and light wear The spine end is nice with some light wear. The boards and corners are nice with some minor denting and wear. The hinges and binding are tight and strong. The pages are bright and clean, some minor toning and foxing, book is very nice. Shipping weight is 5 pounds Inventory: DF4485

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Location: Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania

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