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This year is both the British Association's 100th birthday and the 100th anniversary of Michael Faraday's discovery of electromagnetism. Faraday (1791-1867)* found that a magnet induced an electric current in a wire, that an electric current in a. wire magnetized a piece of iron. From the complementary relation ship of magnetism and electricity came the dynamo, a multitude of other de vices, and a new tempo to civilization...
...entertainment and enlightenment of the thousands who will attend. General Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African statesman, was elected president for the centenary meeting, the first man from the Dominions to hold the office. Another important matter planned for the 1931 meeting was the proper celebration of Michael Faraday's discovery of the principle underlying the electric generator. As every scientist at Bristol knew, 99 years ago Faraday hitched together a contraption of copper, wire, calico and twine, and generated electricity. There were also 300 speeches to be delivered, discussed. Some important observations...
This was probably the greatest work of Physicist Faraday. Greatest contribution of Metaphysician Faraday was his concept that all physical phenomena are interrelated. Of this, he wrote in his diary...
...Michael Faraday set to work in the field of electricity not as a dilettante but as a common laborer. He had to discover almost everything that he wanted to know. Of his greatest discovery, which ultimately resulted in the electric generator, he wrote: ". . . had an iron ring made. . . . Wound it with many coils of copper wire, one-half of them being separated by twine and calico. When all was ready . . . the battery was communicated with [the end of one coil]. . . . The helix strongly attracted the needle of [a galvanometre...
...fell to Albert Einstein, in the next century, to realize this hope of Faraday...