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Faraday As A Discoverer

Public domain audiobook

Faraday As A Discoverer

by John Tyndall

English· 04:30:21· 17 chapters
This is the first of two related Faraday projects. It is about Faraday and deals more with biographical references to Faraday, outlining the important junctures in his life. The second, On the Various Forces of Nature, consists of lectures by Faraday covering a non-mathematical survey of the fundamental forces of nature and some relationships among them.



Future projects will feature the 19th century scientists upon whose shoulders Einstein stood while developing his Theory of Relativity, including Humboldt, Lorentz, Michelson, Morley, Curie and Eddington. Summary by William A Jones

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    01 Parentage - earliest experiments

    18:09
  2. Chapter 2

    02 Early researches - Magnetic Rotations - Liquefaction Gasses

    13:31
  3. Chapter 3

    03 Discovery of Magneto-electricity

    26:44
  4. Chapter 4

    04 Points of Character

    08:48
  5. Chapter 5

    05 Identity of electricities

    17:02
  6. Chapter 6

    06 Laws of electro-chemical decomposition

    09:31
  7. Chapter 7

    07 Origin of power in the voltaic pile

    13:18
  8. Chapter 8

    08 Researches on frictional electricity - induction - theory of contiguous particles

    16:35
  9. Chapter 9

    09 Rest needed, visit to Switzerland

    05:43
  10. Chapter 10

    10 Magnetism of light

    15:44
  11. Chapter 11

    11 Discovery of diamagnetism - magne-crystallic action

    17:19
  12. Chapter 12

    12 Supplementary remarks

    10:54
  13. Chapter 13

    13 Magnetism of Flame and gasses - atmospheric magnetism

    16:09
  14. Chapter 14

    14 Speculations - nature of matter - lines of force

    19:59
  15. Chapter 15

    15 Unity and convertibiliby of natural forces - theory of electric current

    19:27
  16. Chapter 16

    16 Summary

    04:36
  17. Chapter 17

    17 Illustrations of character

    36:52