Timelines
1791
Born near London, son of a blacksmith
1805
Apprenticed as a bookbinder.
1813
Employed by Sir Humphry Davy as laboratory assistant at the Royal Inst.
1821
Demonstrated electromagnetic rotation.
Married Sarah Barnard
Married Sarah Barnard
1823
Liquefied Chlorine
1824
Elected as Fellow of The Royal Society
1825
Discovered benzene
Appointed director of the RI laboratory
Appointed director of the RI laboratory
1826
Began Juvenile lectures at the Royal Institution
1827
Succeeded Sir Humphry Davy in Chair of Chemistry at the Royal Institution
1831
Discovered electromagnetic induction
1834
Published Laws of Electrolysis
1837
Introduced his ideas on Lines of Force.
1839-55
Published ‘Experimental Researches in Electricity’
1845
Showed that polarised light is bent by a
magnetic field
magnetic field
1846
Lecture on Ray Vibrations
1849
Lecture on ‘The Chemical History of a
Candle’
Candle’
1867
Died at home after years of illness
1799
Royal Institution of Great Britain founded
1800
The volta pile, the first useful electric
Battery, built by Alessandro Volta.
Battery, built by Alessandro Volta.
1815
Battle of Waterloo brought peace
to Europe
to Europe
1820
Hans Oersted discovered electromagnetism. Andre Ampere refined that discovery
1827
Georg Ohm proposed Ohm’s Law
1829
Joseph Henry made the first electric motor
1832
H.Pixii made the first electromagnetic
generator
generator
1836
John Daniell developed an improved cell
battery
battery
1840
In New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi signed
1845-47
Sir Chas. Wheatstone used electricity to excite an electricity generator
1855
James Maxwell published ‘On Faraday’s Lines of Force’ giving a mathematical foundation to Faraday’s field theory
1864-75
Maxwell published more on on electromagnetic field theory providing the basis for all forms of waves including radio, X-ray etc.
Faraday
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