Silvanus P. Thompson — electrical engineer, historian, and famous teacher — wrote the standard life of the man he considered the greatest experimenter who ever lived. Michael Faraday, His Life and Work follows the bookbinder’s apprentice into the Royal Institution basement and through the discoveries — electromagnetic rotation, induction, field lines, diamagnetism — that quietly created the electrical age.
Thompson explains the science with an engineer’s authority and tells the life with real tenderness. Download the free EPUB for the definitive portrait of science’s most beloved figure.