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Discovering Science with Michael Faraday at London's Royal Institution
Explore how a young Michael Faraday's encounter with a sensational science demonstration at London's Royal Institution sparked his curiosity and set him on a path to becoming a pioneering scientist. Witness the beginnings of Faraday's journey in episode 10 part 4 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
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After years of working in the book bindery, Faraday, now 21, yearned to escape to a larger world.
His big break came when a customer gave him a ticket to a sensational new kind of entertainment.
Science for the public.
And it started right here, at London's Royal Institution.
Humphrey Davy was not only one of the leading scientists of his day,
he discovered several chemical elements, including calcium and sodium.
He was also a consummate showman, and primitive demonstrations of electricity never failed as a crowd-pleaser.
May we have the lights lowered, please.
I am about to unleash the might of the 2,000 massive chemical batteries stored in the cellar beneath our feet.
And now, behold the power of the mysterious force of electrical fluid to illuminate our future.
Faraday was too busy taking notes to applaud.
Faraday created a transcript of Davy's lecture.
Using the skills he had learned as an apprentice, he bound them into this book.
Perhaps such a gift would bring him to the attention of the great man.
Maybe this gesture could be a means of escape.
escape to a much larger universe.
Good day, sir. I wish you to deliver this parcel to Sir Humphrey.
It was a long shot anyway, but Faraday hoped something would come of it.
And it did.
The experiment is ready for you now, sir.
Ampere tells me that poor Dulong lost an eye and three fingers working with this.
Eyes! My eyes!
