The Inventor

Michael Faraday

He is known as one of the inventors who produce many findings that benefit the world. One of his best known inventions of dynamo and electricity.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in Newington, England. His father was James Faraday, and his mother was Margaret Hastwell. He had three brothers of whom Michael Faraday was the third child.

CHILDHOOD

In the biography of Michael Faraday it is known that he was born from a mediocre family can be said to be inadequate. This made him and his brothers only able to get a little formal education.

Since the age of 14 years, Michael Faraday has worked hard to become a seller and bookbinder. This work makes him accustomed to diligently reading the books he sells or volumes. From these books made his curiosity about science even higher.

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY'S ASSISTANT

When Michael Faraday was twenty years old, he visited lectures given by the famous English scientist Sir Humphry Davy.

Faraday was fascinated by the scientific lectures of Sir Humphry Davy. He wrote a letter to Davy, then he was well received as his assistant.

In just a few years, Faraday was able to make new discoveries for his own creation and hard work. Although Michael Faraday did not have an adequate background in mathematics, but in other natural sciences he can be considered.

FIND A DYNAMO OR ELECTRIC MOTOR

In the biography of Michael Faraday it is known that the first and most important discovery of Faraday in the field of electricity occurred in 1821. Two years earlier Oersted had discovered that ordinary compass magnetic needles could move if an electric current was flowed in a wire that was not far apart.

This led Faraday to conclude, if the magnet is brought closer, then the one that moves is precisely the wire. Working on the basis of this conjecture or hypothesis, Michael Faraday managed to create a scheme or clear details where the wire will constantly rotate adjacent to the magnet as long as the electric current is flowed to the wire.

Indeed, in this case Faraday has invented the first electric motor or the first dynamo. A first scheme concerning the use of electric current to make things move.

It was a remarkable success for Michael Faraday. However, the usefulness is still very limited. Because, there was no method to drive an electric current other than the chemical battery that was assembled simply at the time.

Michael Faraday believed that there was a way of using magnets to create electricity. And Michael Faraday was constantly looking for ways on how to find that method.

FIND THE ELECTRIC CURRENT

In 1831, Faraday discovered that the fact that a magnet passed through a piece of wire, an electric current would flow across the wire and the magnet would move. This state is then referred to as “Electromagnetic Effect,” and this discovery is called “Faraday” Law and is generally considered Faraday's most important and greatest discovery.

FARADAY'S LAW

This is a monumental discovery, for two reasons. First, “Faraday” Law has a fundamental importance in relation to our theoretical understanding of electromagnetism.

Second, electromagnetism can be used to drive continuously the current of electricity as demonstrated by Faraday himself through the manufacture of the first electric dynamo.

Michael Faraday also made contributions in the field of chemistry. He devised the idea of how to turn a gas into a liquid. He also discovered various types of chemicals including benzene.

More important work is his efforts in the field of electrochemistry (inquiry about the chemical effect of electric current). Faraday's investigation with high precision resulted in two laws of “electrolysis”. The name of which is associated with his name is the basis of electrochemistry.

He also popularized many of the terms used in this field: anode, cathode, electrode and ion. Faraday also introduced to physics important ideas about magnetic lines and electric power lines.

Faraday is not only intelligent but simple no matter the fame. He refused to be knighted and also refused to be chairman of the British Royal Society.

He married a woman named Sarah Barnard. Until the end of his life, he had no children from his marriage. Michael Faraday died in Molesey, England on August 25, 1867.