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Michael Faraday

MICHAEL FARADAY

1791 - 1867

The age of electricity appeared. It is true that our era is sometimes called the age of the atom, and with that. Therefore, space travel and atomic weapons, with what they possess potential, have relatively little impact on our daily lives. But we use electrical tools constantly, and we can say with confidence and reassurance that no technological feature has penetrated into our modern era, such as the use of electricity.

Many men have contributed to the control of electricity, but two British scientists, Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell, stand tall above everyone who worked in this field, although the work of one of them complemented the other. However, they did not actually participate in the work, and the achievements of each man separately, entitle him to be in a high position with the hundred.

Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in Newington, England. He came from a poor family and his culture was personal, and at the age of fourteen he became an apprentice in the profession of bookbinding and then selling books, so he took advantage of that opportunity to read in abundance. In the twentieth he was attending lectures given by the famous British scientist Sir Humphrey Davy and was enchanted by them: Daffy wrote and got a job as his assistant, and within a few years Faraday became making his own discoveries, and despite his lack of a good ground in mathematics, he was an experimental physicist who had no dust . His first electrical innovations were in 1821.

Since the scientist Oersted had found two years ago that the needle of the magnetic compass deviates when an electric current passes through a nearby wire, this suggested to Faraday that the wire could move if the magnet remained stationary. After following intuition, he came up with a genius invention. There was a wire constantly spinning close to a magnet as long as there was an electric current flowing through the wire. In fact, Faraday's invention was the first electric motor. This is the first time that electric current is used to move a body: what. And that Faradi's invention, despite being primitive, was the first ancestor of all electric motors used in the world until these days.

This was a great opening, although its practical benefits were very limited because there was no way to generate electric currents other than the primitive method with chemical batteries. Faraday was convinced that there must be some way to use magnetism to generate electricity, and he continued looking for such a way, and in 1831 Faraday discovered that if a magnet passes through a loop of wire, a current will flow in the wire at the time the magnet moves, and this result is called Electromagnetic induction, the discovery of the law that regulates this induction (Faradi's law) is considered Faraday's greatest achievement.