Summary of Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon's Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The life of Michael Faraday might have begun and passed quietly in the remote seclusion of rural Westmorland, but for the pressure of wider events. In the mid to late 1700s, Britain had been fighting rival colonial powers at sea for many years, and it finally lost an expensive war against its own colonists in America.
#2 Faraday was a book lover, and he was always reading. He learned from books, and he learned from his mistakes. He developed a method of self-improvement that involved reading, and he always tried to use precise language.
#3 Faraday was a very curious young man, and he loved to read. He would copy out his notes from the lectures he went to, and he would often experiment with static electricity. He was already beginning to think about how electricity worked, and he questioned the truth of an ostensibly authoritative article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
#4 In 1800, John Tatum learned of the voltaic cell, or battery, invented by Alessandro Volta. It produced a continuous flow of electricity that could be used to demonstrate the structure of matter.

Sujets

• Colonisation
• Science
• Electromagnetism
• Physics
• Sciences et techniques

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822511101
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon's Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The life of Michael Faraday might have begun and passed quietly in the remote seclusion of rural Westmorland, but for the pressure of wider events. In the mid to late 1700s, Britain had been fighting rival colonial powers at sea for many years, and it finally lost an expensive war against its own colonists in America.

#2

Faraday was a book lover, and he was always reading. He learned from books, and he learned from his mistakes. He developed a method of self-improvement that involved reading, and he always tried to use precise language.

#3

Faraday was a very curious young man, and he loved to read. He would copy out his notes from the lectures he went to, and he would often experiment with static electricity. He was already beginning to think about how electricity worked, and he questioned the truth of an ostensibly authoritative article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

#4

In 1800, John Tatum learned of the voltaic cell, or battery, invented by Alessandro Volta. It produced a continuous flow of electricity that could be used to demonstrate the structure of matter.

#5

Faraday’s career as a scientist was launched when he met Jane Marcet, a teacher who instilled in her students a scientist’s curiosity about the physical world and a delight in discovering a little about it.

#6

The Royal Institution was an upstart institution compared to the venerable Royal Society. It was founded to further the application of science to the common purposes of life, and it was funded by subscription. Its primary mover was Count Rumford, who had overlapping careers as fortune hunter, rake, philanderer, spy, military governor, inventor, park designer, and social reformer.

#7

Faraday was a showman as well as a scientist. He demonstrated the elements potassium and sodium by sending an electric current through molten compounds, and he discovered the element chlorine, which was given off when hydrochloric acid reacted with manganese dioxide.

#8

When Faraday began his life in science, he was given the lowest position at the Royal Institution. But he soon proved to be a valuable employee, and he was eventually given a more prestigious position.

#9

Davy was a man of science who had been awarded the Napoleon Prize by the Institut de France. He was knighted by the king in 1812, and in the same year, he married Jane Apreece, a rich young widow. He had joined the haut monde, wining and dining with the privileged and the successful.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When the Davys arrived in France, they were met with hostility from the locals. The roads improved as they went further into the country, but the people were still hostile. Faraday hated the work itself, but moreso the status of servant he was given.

#2

Davy was able to make the discovery of iodine, a new element, while he was in France. He was able to show this new substance to the French scientists, who were not aware of the importance of the subject until it was shown to them.

#3

The tour went on. Back in Rome, Faraday was appalled yet fascinated to witness the way that apparently devout crowds filled the great churches to hear elaborately sung masses presided over by the pope and then launched into the licentious winter carnival.

#4

After his tour of Europe, Faraday came back a man. He had seen Versailles, the Louvre, St. Peter's, the Coliseum, and Vesuvius, and he had crossed the Alps three times. He had mixed with Europe's elite scientists and struck up lasting friendships.

#5

In 1815, Faraday helped develop the miner’s safety lamp. Coal miners needed light to work, and hundreds had died in explosions ignited by open flames. In Davy’s lamp, the flame couldn’t pass through the fine, metal mesh that surrounded it. But the lamp was still dangerous, since it encouraged mine owners to reopen mines that had previously been closed for safety reasons.

#6

The three men were experts in chemistry, and they worked at chemistry because that is where the frontier of science was. They were driven by a thirst for knowledge, and there was further motivation from industry.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Faraday was a first-rate chemical analyst, but he was also a student of electricity and magnetism. He was shocked and fascinated by the news of Oersted’s discovery, and began to experiment with currents and magnets.