The Electric Life of Michael Faraday de Hirshfeld, Alan - 2006

Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full number line. Full black cloth boards, silver lettering to spine. xiv, 258 p.p. B&W illustrations and photos. Near fine condition. The Electric Life of Michael Faraday traces the life of a poor tradesman who, through sheer gumption and well-timed luck, rose throught he ranks fo the scientific elite to become the most influential experimentalist of our time. Faraday's research created the world as we know it: his experiments with copper disks evolved into the generators that power our computers, and his wire-encased iron rings led to transformers that safely allow electricity into our homes. Einstein praised his theories on space, force and light as the "greatest alteration..in our conception of the structure of reality since the foundation of theoretical physics by Newton.