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Present day industrial civilization was born with the electric generator. England's great, famed Michael Faraday, nearly 100 years ago made this epochal discovery. Until last week, however, few in the U. S. knew precisely...
When the American Physical Society met last week at Cornell University (Ithaca, N. Y.) they were read momentous pages from Faraday's unpublished diary. The reader: Sir William Bragg, onetime Nobel Prizeman, England's foremost living physicist, who owns the diary...
...great step came when Newton (1642-1727) gave Space a definite physical reality in his theories of force accelerating bodies, the movement being measurable in reference to a really rigid body. The introduction of "ether" by Faraday (1791-1867) and Maxwell (1831-79) to explain their electro-magnetic field theories was the last great step before Einstein's relativity theories...
Awarded. To Sir William Henry Bragg, director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory: the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, for his studies in molecular and atomic structures...
...Michael Faraday and Induced Currents", Dr. Crawford, Jefferson Phys...