Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century by Iwan Rhys Morus, Icon Books, £9.99, ISBN 1840465409 Reviewed by Roy Herbert
WHEN Faraday was a young man in the early 19th century science was a pursuit for gentlemen of leisure and wealth. Though only the son of a blacksmith, Faraday was taken up by Humphrey Davy, the director of the Royal Institution. Here he proved to be a phenomenal experimenter and made the fundamental discoveries in magnetism and electricity that have given us the universal source of power on which modern life depends. Eventually succeeding Davy, Faraday gave public lectures, with meticulously…
