How Faraday Invented the Motor and Irritated his Mentor 

Sir Davy's greatest discovery was Faraday.

Faraday came into the employ of Sir Humph by good fortune. He, Faraday, was fairly well educated, considering his circumstance, and always had an interest in science. One day a patron of the bookbinding service where Faraday worked gave the kid a ticket to a lecture by Sir Humph. Faraday... who couldn't really afford such an extravagance, attended and took many notes. He bound his notes and sent them to Sir Humph. Humph was quite impressed and plucked the young lad out of obscurity and set him to work on this new confounded thing called electricity and magnets etc. Faraday was big on circles, it seems, being religious and belonging to a circle of friends. Smart kid makes good and boss gets jealous.

Last week I watched a BBC documentary about the history of electricity. Perhaps that led me to one of your videos. I enjoyed that video and some others very much. Thus, I started watching your videos from oldest to newest. They are really wonderful. It's clearly put a lot of work into researching and presenting each video. Your clear and enthusiastic. So thank you very much for all that you do.

Thank you for leaving the names under the photos/paintings. So many people don't do that and it makes it infuriating when trying to remember the names and places and who did what.

I've been binge-watching a ton of your videos in no particular order during lunches the past couple weeks. They are fascinating, and just the right size, with loads of fun bits of personal and related info about the people of science that got us to where we are. No idea why these videos don't have way more views than they do, as they are some of the best I've seen for the history they present.

Thank you for the Faraday`s motor illustration...a picture is a thousand words...

I got hooked by Armstrong’s regen amplifier, watched more on de Forest and Fleming and Fessenden and Marconi and a few others and have been binge watching from episode #1 for the last few days. Such fascinating history assembled into these stories - I can’t stop. I am an electronics tech schooled in the late 70’s. great work!

The really cool part of these presentations is they flesh out the bare bones of history, history connected with the personalities that created ithe history . I hearby proclaim these videos classic educational tools of the very best kind. If these videos had been around in 1942 the Navy would have used them. Along with their own excellent films and manuals on these subjects. Do people have to get permission to use this in formal educational presentations? Anyone involved in these fields can benefit from watching these., all the way from trainees to people with masters degrees or PHDs. The Navy would, most certainly, have used these! They may end up using them!

Kathy, Love the way you tell this most important story of Electricity. :-)

This woman has truth running in her veins

I love the way you explain. Even a child can understand. You know your subject very well

All your videos are amazing and inspiring. IMO, learning science through history, like in these videos, is far more interesting than just learning from dry equations.

This is awesome. I had to subscribe after checking out your video list. Thanks!

I am so glad your videos appeared in the suggestions! This is some fascinating history you have been uncovering.

Love your videos Kathy! Interesting stories and I’m getting educated as well!

Great video Kathy, I've tried to watch only a few per day so they last longer, I enjoy it too much to come to end so quickly if you know what I mean!

I enjoy watching your videos, thank you for the effort that you put in.

Indeed great teaching ! 🙏🙏🌹

Great job. You are my new addiction.

Brilliant! Luv yr video. Interesting bit of history, thanx.

Thanks! That was educational and entertaining.

Yours is one of the most entertaining Science channels I've ever found....

learnt all these as inventors or creators of laws when studying electronics or scince , but not their history or details. Thanks for these interesting and detailed videos.

Having watched several of your videos so far (good work on them, by the way), what surprises me is the continuing flood of comments from those who are surprised to discover that scientists are actual people, with all their quirks, failings and foibles. Seems like most people’s exposure to science is little more than dry factual recitations from some boring old school textbooks. I find that very sad. And I think it is a factor in the apathy -- no, more than that -- in the downright hostility that some groups express towards science.

Faraday is the best! I had a great time reading about him in the book Empires of Light. You should definitely check it out if you have not already.

Yes, I hold a low opinion of Davy for his pettiness, Michael Faraday on the other hands i consider an heroic autodidact, having discovered not just the electric motor, buts its obverse. The electric generator This establishing one of the curious quirks of nature; wherein devices are multiple transducers. As are speakers and microphones. Faraday humbles me.

"Why would inventing a motor irritate anyone?" Motor go brrrrrr. Done. Next video. 😁

Kathy, love your videos, I wonder how you can make so many so good! I only made 3 and was knackered hahahaha. On the Faraday motor, it is VERY efficient as the magnetic with the electric fields always meet 90 degrees, that is why we always used to show it first to the electrical engineering students at the uni as the first lab on Physics II. You can think of it as a motor with only a single turn, therefore you have to up the amps and lower the voltage externally with another transformer. As an MHD motor it is one of the finest especially if you use Mercury ahahaha. If you come to think of it, accelerating Mercury at a relativistic speed you get a gradient of time and therefore a gradient of gravity, so I really love the Faraday motor, on steroids it must even defeat gravity.

Best channel on RU-vid!

Anyone who wants to see what a great mind Faraday had has only to read a short book called 'The Anatomy of a Candle Flame'. This consists of three Childrens' Lectures he gave at the Royal Institute. Watching him perform apparently simple experiments and build from the results of one to another experiment is a joy to anyone who respects the scientific method.

As simple as electromagnetism is, It makes me wonder why it took those old guys so long to figure it out. " Stupid is, stupid does."

The weirdest Intro in history. I love it :)

Your cute and well educated, keep up the good work!

0:11 heh, one of the rare occasions where the CCs are more correct than the text shown in the video. :-)

How cool would it be for you to travel to London and meet up with Brady Haran and Keith the head librarian at the Royal Society.

"Chemical Assistant" is a good name for a band.

I’m wondering how faraday didn’t get poisoned by the mercury himself unless he always managed to avoid getting in contact with it.

Very informative & entertaining video. I'll pick a single nit: it's spelled "plagiarism". Other than that, quite excellent.

If it was not for Faraday discovering the principal of induction, today we would have no generators, or motors, no transformers. The only current source would be primary cells and not secondary cells like lead acid, because there would be no way to charge them. We might have flashlights because Davy had made a crude incandescent bulb around I think, 1809 perhaps? Without Faraday the electrical industry would have hit a brick wall.

Nice presentation, but you leave the impression that Faraday did this one thing and then spent the rest of his life in a forced and dreary occupation of lens making. He had many many other major accomplishments, including the discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831. In 1833, he was appointed as the first Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Back in those days I have come to the conclusion that it was as much about ego and prestige as science.

Arrrrrggggghhhhhh it's HumPHrey. Or as he is referred to by schoolchildren at the in Penzance school named after him, Sir Lumpy Gravy.

try as I may, I can not catch the words of your jingle!

The same electrical force that keeps the earth spinning around the sun.

The motor......

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0:12 Plagiarism is how it is spelled, you have Plaguerism which to me would mean how one would act/be while having the plague:) lol

A yes reading English literature of what the Brits were doing in that period of discoveries..... However, all the continent were working on it, does the name of Volta, Ampere, Jedlick and many others that were not splashed all over the world in the English press did most of the teoretical amd mecanical demostrations in most European capitals.... The Brits were allways Jhonny come latelly and picked up what others bringed to the table and passed as their research with a well oiled press....

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If I had a nickel for every one of my mentors I've infuriated by painting them with my taillights...

Spelling mistakes: 0:12 plagiarism 1:07 (and subsequently) Humphry Davy

Seems to be a sadistic theme to this channel.

These are like nice 'circus tricks' but did not prove current did spiral down the wire. Missing is a diagram of a magnet and the magnetic fields effecting current in a wire

I think more like "discovered" the motor...

Unless you have experienced it personally, he British class pejudice is had to undersand. A lot of Bis (and Euopeans) felt hat Class was nherite tit and held "ommoners" in disdain. *sigh*

How was Faraday compelled to work on optics? I wish you didn't tease us like that.

Errata: 1. Britain, not England 2. Humphry, not Humfry

AND HE COME FROM A VERY POOR FAMILY OF 5 AND NO FATHER,, JUST THINK WHAT HE COULD HAVE DONE IF HE AND HIS MOTHER HAD MONEY

Argh...3rd time lucky on "Humphry" spelling?

Not usefull...Unless you wanna stir mercury electrically. Nearly fell off me chair laughing.

What got you started in making RU-vid videos? You should be far more widely watched than you are!

Why was Davy miffed? I think it's a tale as old as time. People simply get pissy when new hypothesis are presented that differ from their own accepted set of hypotheses. I present new hypothesis in the search for knowledge expansion often and find that others become quite vile and almost psychotic in their critiques. As a whole these critics own scientific views seem mostly fringe if valid at all. These people make statements that defy even the most rudimentary understanding of nature and or electric study. Not all of critics are this way. I have encountered and am pleased to have met some earnestly brilliant scientists in these endeavors. Which makes dealing with the pissers worth while. But in general I think a lot of the squeaky wheels are just pissy people who take offense that others have a different view. Just like your assessment of Davy I also suspect ignorance more than jealousy. When I see reactions like his I immediately suspect the person is misunderstanding what is being explained. And because I suffer the same human condition myself I most often resolve their duplicitous suspicions as simply being too stupid to understand the matter at hand. All of their pissiness is surely a detriment to the advancement if science. And I feel it was at work during Faraday's time as well as our own. The only contributions to science from people like Davy is to slow down its advancement. And that's a sad part of history that seems to march forward through every generation.

Get rid of the music!

"Plaguerism"? Like maliciously spreading small pox or cholera lol?

Strange humans. Destroy their own good work with 'background music".

Good video but I wish you would get rid of the annoying corny "electricity electricity song"

Having a theme song that just repeats the same word over and over at the beginning and end of your video is extremely annoying. It's not a cute song, it just gets stuck in your head, and so I will not be watching your channel, even though it was good otherwise. I'm not exposing myself to that kind of psychological warfare that tries to force things into my mind by repeating them over and over.

For God's sake, look at the video. The shadows are horrible. The skin tones are unpleasant. The camera work is non-existent. Find some cinematography student who is looking for a project and get his help. Also, a makeup artist would help. Nearly EVERYONE who makes videos uses makeup, much of it professionally done. There MUST be a reason. I am not talking about CONTENT, which is fine, but about APPEARANCE which is horrendous.

Inventions come in pairs. Stop trying to bogard your stories with bad people.

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