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The Impact of Faraday's Innovations: Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey Episode 10 Part 8
Discover how Faraday's groundbreaking innovations shaped the course of scientific history in this captivating episode from Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey. Explore Faraday's journey from the slums to becoming the director of a prominent laboratory, and his unprecedented creation of annual Christmas lectures on science for young minds starting in 1825.
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Years later, it would change the course of his life.
And ours.
Davy's death finally brought an end to this fruitless project.
And Faraday, the boy from the slums, succeeded him as director of the laboratory.
Faraday used his new authority to do something unprecedented.
A series of annual Christmas lectures on science for the young.
Beginning in 1825, and continuing to this day.
At one of the first Christmas lectures, Faraday enchanted his audience with displays of the
new powers that were at his disposal.
Suppose I want to fire a portion of gunpowder.
I can readily do it with the power of electricity.
If I receive electricity through this conducting wire, I can then give it to anything I touch.
But I must stand on these insulating glass legs to prevent the electricity from going
away into the floor.
Now I am Electrovite!
Do you think I could...
like this glass jet just by touching it with my finger.
No, don't do it! No! No! Don't!
Now, mind you, don't try this at home.
And now, my children, you have seen for yourselves how this invisible force of
electricity can be made to serve new purposes utterly unattainable by the
powers we have now.
