1. Michael Faraday was mostly self-educated. In Faraday's boyhood home, money was always tight. His father James was a sickly blacksmith who struggled to support his wife and four children in one ...

Michael Faraday, a British scientist who was credited with the discovery ... Just a few months later, in the fall of 1813, Faraday accompanied Davy and his wife on an 18-month tour of Europe, acting ...