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     He lived among books. Some of the scientific works which passed through his
hands aroused his interest in science and he started to read. The boy could read every
book in the shop because he was busy and had not much time. He began to take home
the books which he liked best.
     c) Davy wrote Faraday a letter, too, offering him to do scientific research. At first,
Michael's work was to wash apparatus and pre-pare what Davy and the other scien-
tists used in their experiments. But Faraday was happy.
     He could now work in the company of scientist. He could hear what they said and
watch
     them at work.
     Davy sometimes took trips to Europe, where he met great scientists of other coun-
tries, and one day asked Faraday if he wanted to go with him.
     Faraday, of course, was glad. The journey lasted a
     year and a half. It was a wonderful experience. Faraday learned much during the
trip and he met, among other people, Volta and Ampere.
     When Faraday returned to London he started to write articles for a scientific
magazine. For five more years he studied electricity and other sciences, and then he
himself began to teach. The scientific interests of this ambitious man were quite dif-
ferent. He made a new kind of steel and a new kind of glass. He studied flying. He
did many kinds of work, and he did most of it alone.
     d) It was after some more experiments of that kind, that he made a machine.
     This was the beginning of all the great ma-chines that make our electricity today.
They light and heat our houses; they make our radio-sets work; they give the neces-
sary power to drive our electric trains. It was the beginning of the electrical age,
which changed the face of the earth.
     e) Once he read an article on electricity.
     When Faraday began to read it he knew nothing of the subject, but it interested
him a lot. Soon his main interest was in science, and especially in electricity
and chemistry. He read as much as he could on these subjects. He made notes from
the books that interested him most.
     Like all scientists, Faraday cared neither for clothes nor for money. He only
wanted to make experiments. He bought a cheap and simple apparatus and some ma-
terials. The more he studied, the more interested he became. At that time lectures on
scientific subjects were being given in London by a great scientist and the most popu-
lar lecturer Sir Humphry Davy. Faraday went to these lectures, and as he sat and lis-
tened, he took notes and made sketches to illustrate them.
     As Faraday learnt more about electricity, he didn't want to do his work at the
bookbinder's shop any more. He wrote a letter to Humphry Davy, telling him of his
great interest in science and asking for his help. In the letter he put some of the notes
and also some of his sketches.




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