More than 105 years after his death, the Royal Institution has finally paid tribute to Michael Faraday. Earlier this week the Queen, the Royal Institution’s patron, opened a museum, an archive room ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday showed that light and magnetism are linked. He passed a beam through glass inside a magnetic field and found that its polarization — the direction its waves wiggle — rotated.

Michael Faraday built an electric motor in 1821 and a rudimentary generator a decade later – but half a century passed before electric power took off OF THE many stories of how unlikely discoveries ...

In 1845, physicist Michael Faraday provided the first direct evidence that electromagnetism and light are related. Now, it turns out that this connection is even stronger than Faraday imagined. In his ...