The Birthplace of Michael Faraday’s Big Ideas

A peek inside the laboratory of the chemist and physicist, whose experiments
helped scienti sts see the link between electricity and magneti sm

As a young boy, Michael Faraday worked in a bookbinding shop in London, reading every book
that he bound. By 22, he was a laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution of Great Britain,
where he would become England’s premier physicist and chemist in the 1800s. In this
laboratory, arranged as it was in the 1850s, Faraday made discoveries crucial for bringing
electricity into the realm of practical use in technology. In 1831, he discovered electromagnetic
induction, proving that electricity could be generated from magnetism.