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Faraday lived to see his infant dynamo, the first of its kind, developed into a machine not only sufficiently powerful to maintain electric arc lights, but also into a form sufficiently practicable to be continuously engaged in producing such light, in one of the lighthouses on the English coast. Holmes produced such a machine in 1862, or some years before Faraday's death.
The times being ripe, they pass into immediate and extended public use, so that the later inventor is given all the credit of an original discovery, and the true first and original inventor remains unrecognized. We will first examine Faraday's discovery of the relations existing between light and magnetism.
"I thought p'r'aps," she said, still regarding him with an unflinching scrutiny, her face grave and almost hard, "that you'd begun to find us too Western, that the novelty had worn off, that our ways were too too what shall I say? too wild and woolly." A flush of anger ran over Faraday's face. "Your suppositions were neither just nor true," he said, coldly.
Still, if needed, an answer of another kind might be given to the question 'What is its use? As far as electricity has been applied for medical purposes, it has been almost exclusively Faraday's electricity. You have noticed those lines of wire which cross the streets of London. It is Faraday's currents that speed from place to place through these wires.
"Loose, liberal, confident," he declares of Faraday's "scenario," as one might call it, "it might be passed for a great, gossiping, eloquent letter the overflow into talk of an artist's amorous plan."
Such a view was natural on the part of Siemens, who was himself a living representative of the type in question; but it was not the view of such a man as Faraday or Newton, whose pure aim was to discover truth, well knowing that it would be turned to use thereafter. In Faraday's eyes the new principle was a higher boon than the appliance which was founded upon it.
Faraday's invention of the first dynamo is interesting because at the same time he made the invention he solved a problem which up to his time had been the despair of the ablest physicists and mathematicians. This was the phenomenon of Arago's rotating disc.
Experimental Researches in Electricity. By Michael Faraday. From the Philosophical Transactions. Abstracts of the Philosophical Transactions from 1800 to 1837. Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity and Magnetism. 3 vols. Life and Letters of Faraday. By Dr. Bence Jones. Michael Faraday. By J.H. Gladstone. By Henry M. Noad. Revised by W.H. Preece. Michael Faraday. By John Tyndall.
Regarding this marriage I will at present limit myself to quoting an entry written in Faraday's own hand in his book of diplomas, which caught my eye while in his company some years ago. It ran thus: '25th January, 1847. 'Amongst these records and events, I here insert the date of one which, as a source of honour and happiness, far exceeds all the rest. We were married on June 12, 1821.
For however well acquainted I may be with the researches and discoveries of that great master however numerous the illustrations which occur to me of the loftiness of Faraday's character and the beauty of his life still to grasp him and his researches as a whole; to seize upon the ideas which guided him, and connected them; to gain entrance into that strong and active brain, and read from it the riddle of the world this is a work not easy of performance, and all but impossible amid the distraction of duties of another kind.
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