MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1869)
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Faraday had rejected the concept of electricity as a ‘fluid’ and instead visualised its ‘fields’ with lines of force at their edges – the lines of force demonstrated by the pattern of iron fillings around a magnet. This meant that action at a distance simply did not happen, but things moved only when they encountered…
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Michael Faraday - Biography, Facts and Pictures
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Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
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Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
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PDF) Alexander von Humboldt: Galvanism, Animal Electricity, and Self-Experimentation Part 2: The Electric Eel, Animal Electricity, and Later Years
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Michael Faraday Science History Institute, faraday
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Michael Faraday - Wikipedia
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MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867) English scientist giving one of his lectures for children at the Royal Institution Stock Photo - Alamy
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