Michael Faraday

Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851-1916): Michael Faraday (1791-1867). [Portrait etching] [mid-nineteenth century].

This portrait etching, signed SPT (Silvanus Phillips Thompson), is autographed by Faraday.

This portrait etching is available on the digital library project I Remain.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867). [Letter] 1846 November 17, Royal Institution [to] Mr. [Duch?].

In this letter, Faraday describes his experimental findings regarding electricity and drying. A philosopher as well as a scientist, Faraday experimented with electricity, chemistry, radiation, and physics. Sir Humphrey Davy, whose influence secured Faraday his first position as a laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution, was his mentor, and his contemporary John Tyndall (whose work, along with Davy’s, is also represented in Special Collections) wrote Faraday’s biography in 1872. Faraday became director of the laboratory in the Royal Institution in 1825 where he devised a lecture series and taught chemistry at the Royal Military Academy. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a scientific adviser to the Corporation of Trinity House.

This letter is available on the digital library project I Remain.