Michael Faraday Biography: How Faraday Escaped Poverty with a Lot of Luck
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Date: 2022-12-27
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Nathan
From some very bizarre personal experiences, I am going to say something that may be seen as crazy: The luck that Faraday had may not have been so. It is, from my experiences, very possible that something (I have no idea what though I have a theory from educated guesses) used Faraday to perform some desired action, with the luck being either side-effects or, hard to understand, the actual desired result. From my experiences, this thing is OCD to the max: No job to big, no job to small, to get what I want I will do them all, no matter how strange the results of these actions had on me or those around me, for good or bad (and some of these actions and results have been actual X-Files-level events.
The really crazy thing is that I am not doing anything as important as Faraday, but just a hobby on Armor and Ordnance in the Age of Ironclads where things have been inconceivably lucky as to what I was able to obtain: How about the person in charge of the ENTIRE US NAVY WWII AND AFTER STUDY OF ARMOR AND GUN PROJECTILES TO PUNCH HOLES IN IT, GIVING ME >ALL< OF HIS PERSONAL FILES AND >ALL< OF THE REPORTS HE CREATED IN HIS ANALYSIS OF THEM, INCLUDING BY HIS ENTIRE DIVISION AT THE US NAVAL PROVING GROUND, DAHLGREN, VIRGINIA? No crazy movie plot can be more impossible than the things like that WHICH ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME! So I note each event talked about in this video and have equivalents that happened to me, too. This thing, whatever it is, is a highly-experienced expert in such things, obviously, but it never tells what it is trying to do or why or how and the strange things simply fall out of the sky with usually zero warning.
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From some very bizarre personal experiences, I am going to say something that may be seen as crazy: The luck that Faraday had may not have been so. It is, from my experiences, very possible that something (I have no idea what though I have a theory from educated guesses) used Faraday to perform some desired action, with the luck being either side-effects or, hard to understand, the actual desired result. From my experiences, this thing is OCD to the max: No job to big, no job to small, to get what I want I will do them all, no matter how strange the results of these actions had on me or those around me, for good or bad (and some of these actions and results have been actual X-Files-level events.
The really crazy thing is that I am not doing anything as important as Faraday, but just a hobby on Armor and Ordnance in the Age of Ironclads where things have been inconceivably lucky as to what I was able to obtain: How about the person in charge of the ENTIRE US NAVY WWII AND AFTER STUDY OF ARMOR AND GUN PROJECTILES TO PUNCH HOLES IN IT, GIVING ME >ALL< OF HIS PERSONAL FILES AND >ALL< OF THE REPORTS HE CREATED IN HIS ANALYSIS OF THEM, INCLUDING BY HIS ENTIRE DIVISION AT THE US NAVAL PROVING GROUND, DAHLGREN, VIRGINIA? No crazy movie plot can be more impossible than the things like that WHICH ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME! So I note each event talked about in this video and have equivalents that happened to me, too. This thing, whatever it is, is a highly-experienced expert in such things, obviously, but it never tells what it is trying to do or why or how and the strange things simply fall out of the sky with usually zero warning.
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Bruce
So excited to have found you! I absolutely love your enthusiasm! That you have so few followers is appalling. There are many educated people. There are many intelligent people. But there are very very few geniuses. curiosity + A RATIONAL IMAGINATION + intelligence = GENIUS. Imagination is the ability to think with images (pictures) as apposed to words or language. It matters not how intelligent or educated one might be, lacking imagination one cannot venture outside the box where all new ideas and understanding are to be found. Quoting Leonardo da Vinci, There are those that see. There are those that see when shown. And there are those that dont see. The geniuses are the figure-it ousters. The rest of us are the learner-doers. But for the figure-it-outers the leaner-doers would have nothing to learn and nothing to do. Sad to say but many potential geniuses are lost to us because they lack academic skills because they are ADD or dyslexic. They are marginalized because they are said to be slow learners when many of them are blessed with imagination. It is understood by many that Einstein was ADD. Faraday lacked a formal education. Even so, that he was a genius is undeniable. This why Faraday is my all time very favorite heroI think that his biggest contribution to science was that he was the first to realize that there such things a fields as as mentioned in his lecture at the Royal Institute. Many thanks Kathy.
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So excited to have found you! I absolutely love your enthusiasm! That you have so few followers is appalling. There are many educated people. There are many intelligent people. But there are very very few geniuses. curiosity + A RATIONAL IMAGINATION + intelligence = GENIUS. Imagination is the ability to think with images (pictures) as apposed to words or language. It matters not how intelligent or educated one might be, lacking imagination one cannot venture outside the box where all new ideas and understanding are to be found. Quoting Leonardo da Vinci, There are those that see. There are those that see when shown. And there are those that dont see. The geniuses are the figure-it ousters. The rest of us are the learner-doers. But for the figure-it-outers the leaner-doers would have nothing to learn and nothing to do. Sad to say but many potential geniuses are lost to us because they lack academic skills because they are ADD or dyslexic. They are marginalized because they are said to be slow learners when many of them are blessed with imagination. It is understood by many that Einstein was ADD. Faraday lacked a formal education. Even so, that he was a genius is undeniable. This why Faraday is my all time very favorite heroI think that his biggest contribution to science was that he was the first to realize that there such things a fields as as mentioned in his lecture at the Royal Institute. Many thanks Kathy.
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Sarah
Davy's wife Jane Apreece Davy, was classist and her behavior wasn't excusable. In her defense however, she had married a hot famous superstar and he was always busy with the work that made him famous. She got a once in anyone's lifetime opportunity to go off with him to tour Europe. They couldn't bring the usual entourage but were allowed a valet. However the valet wasn't invisible like he was supposed to be, he was soaking in all the knowledge he could. She didn't have her husband to herself and her opportunity to shine was supposed to be social events but the valet wanted to be the right hand man.
Imagine you are the new husband of Jean Harlow and she is finally traveling with you & free from any shooting schedule. Her personal assistant who is supposed to make the trip go smoothly is Marilyn Monroe or Madonna. She is trying to learn how to be a star and is constantly in the spotlight with your new wife. You get 3rd place. You'd be bummed.
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Davy's wife Jane Apreece Davy, was classist and her behavior wasn't excusable. In her defense however, she had married a hot famous superstar and he was always busy with the work that made him famous. She got a once in anyone's lifetime opportunity to go off with him to tour Europe. They couldn't bring the usual entourage but were allowed a valet. However the valet wasn't invisible like he was supposed to be, he was soaking in all the knowledge he could. She didn't have her husband to herself and her opportunity to shine was supposed to be social events but the valet wanted to be the right hand man.
Imagine you are the new husband of Jean Harlow and she is finally traveling with you & free from any shooting schedule. Her personal assistant who is supposed to make the trip go smoothly is Marilyn Monroe or Madonna. She is trying to learn how to be a star and is constantly in the spotlight with your new wife. You get 3rd place. You'd be bummed.
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Pa
It touched me deeply to learn how close Faraday, one of my science heroes, was to end up in being a nobody. Imagine all the decades of further development we had lost without his 'lucky coincidences'. Where were we now? Would anyone have invented a radio? and try to imagine what we did actually lose (or could have achieved) with all the other -lost- geniuses who werent that lucky. There must have been thousands of them
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It touched me deeply to learn how close Faraday, one of my science heroes, was to end up in being a nobody. Imagine all the decades of further development we had lost without his 'lucky coincidences'. Where were we now? Would anyone have invented a radio? and try to imagine what we did actually lose (or could have achieved) with all the other -lost- geniuses who werent that lucky. There must have been thousands of them
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Daryl
I read the book about Davy called The Mercurial Chemist interesting how Davy discovered sodium and potassium a few days later.
Faraday put wires in a pool of mercury with a magnet floating in it. The magnet rotated when a current was applied and was a precurser to the electric motor. I was told his experiments with mercury added to his eventual demise. No sure how true that is.
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I read the book about Davy called The Mercurial Chemist interesting how Davy discovered sodium and potassium a few days later.
Faraday put wires in a pool of mercury with a magnet floating in it. The magnet rotated when a current was applied and was a precurser to the electric motor. I was told his experiments with mercury added to his eventual demise. No sure how true that is.
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Jason
I stumbled upon your series a few weeks ago and before I knew it two hours had passed. After finding out a few things about Tesla that I thought were true really were not I couldn't pull myself away. Very well presented materials and inspiration for some further research into history. Thank you for taking the time to make your series.
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I stumbled upon your series a few weeks ago and before I knew it two hours had passed. After finding out a few things about Tesla that I thought were true really were not I couldn't pull myself away. Very well presented materials and inspiration for some further research into history. Thank you for taking the time to make your series.
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Old
Thanks for your fascinating historical talks on science. I am curious though as to why you said that one of the few advantages that Faraday had was that he was white. You would have had trouble finding anyone who was not white in London in those days when all levels of society were white.
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Thanks for your fascinating historical talks on science. I am curious though as to why you said that one of the few advantages that Faraday had was that he was white. You would have had trouble finding anyone who was not white in London in those days when all levels of society were white.
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Andrew
I would encourage anybody interested in science to obtain and read Michael Faraday's book 'The Anatomy of A Candle Flame'. It gives the text of three children's lectures he gave at the Scientific Institute. The logical progression of experiments and thought is stunning.
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I would encourage anybody interested in science to obtain and read Michael Faraday's book 'The Anatomy of A Candle Flame'. It gives the text of three children's lectures he gave at the Scientific Institute. The logical progression of experiments and thought is stunning.
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Michael
Thanks Kathy. Presentations given by individuals enthusiastic about their subject are always the most enjoyable. I love seeing knowledgeable people talk about what it is they find exciting and wanting to share this enthusiasm with others. It shows; much appreciated!
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Thanks Kathy. Presentations given by individuals enthusiastic about their subject are always the most enjoyable. I love seeing knowledgeable people talk about what it is they find exciting and wanting to share this enthusiasm with others. It shows; much appreciated!
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Shawn
Even though these topics are well known to me, you manage to add something novel in every episode that I was unaware of or maybe only dimly aware. Furthermore you do this in just a few minutes. Brava! So concise and yet so fascinating.
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Even though these topics are well known to me, you manage to add something novel in every episode that I was unaware of or maybe only dimly aware. Furthermore you do this in just a few minutes. Brava! So concise and yet so fascinating.
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Know
He worked as an apprentice book binder not delivering books. I am always amazed that when people take about Faraday is they ignore his early work on electrolysis. The unit of capacitors is named after him.
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He worked as an apprentice book binder not delivering books. I am always amazed that when people take about Faraday is they ignore his early work on electrolysis. The unit of capacitors is named after him.
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Robert
Another good one, thanks. When I was young I used to go to the RI Christmas lectures every year, and once I was allowed to see Faraday's lab in the basement. Some of his electromagnets were still there.
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Another good one, thanks. When I was young I used to go to the RI Christmas lectures every year, and once I was allowed to see Faraday's lab in the basement. Some of his electromagnets were still there.
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By
Love your talks and always give you a thumbs up. But. how is being white and Christian an advantage when _everyone_ is white and Christian? In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Love your talks and always give you a thumbs up. But. how is being white and Christian an advantage when _everyone_ is white and Christian? In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Sonar
Kathy fails to mention that Faraday invented the most important theoretical concept in physics that still is the center of modern quantum physics. It is the concept of fields.
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Kathy fails to mention that Faraday invented the most important theoretical concept in physics that still is the center of modern quantum physics. It is the concept of fields.
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kapa1611
i listened to your interview with Dave from EEVblog, so i wanted to check out your videos, especially the ones about Faraday. great video! :) thanks
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i listened to your interview with Dave from EEVblog, so i wanted to check out your videos, especially the ones about Faraday. great video! :) thanks
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radeon
I just wanted to ask if you had published some books on history of physics like topics that you tell. I will surely buy if the answer is yes.
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I just wanted to ask if you had published some books on history of physics like topics that you tell. I will surely buy if the answer is yes.
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stevenslough
Thank for your most interesting short electricity history lectures. Steven S. Lough, President Emeritus of the Seattle EV Association
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Thank for your most interesting short electricity history lectures. Steven S. Lough, President Emeritus of the Seattle EV Association
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Pixxel
Thank you so much for this fascinating story. I'd love to see a movie about Faraday's life. What an incredible resource for drama! :)
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Thank you so much for this fascinating story. I'd love to see a movie about Faraday's life. What an incredible resource for drama! :)
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solarwonder
i saw an antique book of scientists childhoods and should have bought it. i did read the faraday chapter and the franklin too
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i saw an antique book of scientists childhoods and should have bought it. i did read the faraday chapter and the franklin too
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agentstona
I must say Kathy you are a treasure thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge its been help ful to us normal people.
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I must say Kathy you are a treasure thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge its been help ful to us normal people.
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