Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Faraday's Laboratory and its importance
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
Simon Schaffer explains what Faraday achieved in the 1830s, his life and times as a chemist, and the links to the work of Stephenson on steam engines. The discovery of the first dynamo in 1831, the importance of batteries and magnets and the role of glass. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:17 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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