J. H. Gladstone worked beside Faraday at the Royal Institution, and his short Michael Faraday has the warmth of memory: the character sketch of the blacksmith’s son who refused honours and presidencies, the Sandemanian faith at the centre of his life, and a colleague’s account of the discoveries that electrified the century.
Briefer than Thompson’s biography and more personal, it is the Faraday his friends knew. Download the free EPUB for greatness observed at close range.