Class Act: Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday had what we would call a “normal” life. His father died when he was only 18 years of age, which caused him to have to become the man of his family so that he could support his mother and siblings. He worked as a book binder and during this time he discovered that he wanted to do something that involved science. Through his curiosity and his ideas he gained from his role model Isaac Newton he discovered the Equation that lead to electricity. He made his discovery during a rough time is science because people were trying to figure out what science really was. I understood his equation the most because he used simple terms instead of complex terms like the other scientist and mathematicians. Electricity is something that we use on a day to day basis from the television to the computer, without this equation who knows where we would be.