Faraday was a secretary of the athenaem club, a social organizer for the scientific and literary itelligentsia and was packed with stuff to do. He often wrote to Ampere as a way to express how he truely felt. Faraday soon found a new compound called benezene and worked with the uses of it as a dying agent. He was soon nominated as a director of the institution. He took the job and automatically had problems with funding. There was no money for the winter coal needed to warm the place so Faraday came up with a 0% interest loan that was funded by the members. This paid for a lot of it but he needed something else to help pay. He soon though of charging people to come and see his lectures which in no time at all became very profitable. Some lectures even had as many as 1000 guests. After the lectures the people wound go into the library for tea and to talk about different things. Faraday soon turned into a great public speaker and people loved his lectures. He soon started giving lectures to small Kidd and making his lectures exciting by letting them help with the experiments. He even went as far as throwing potassium into water and let them see the explosion.
Faraday soon had a glass forge installed into the basement to try his hand at glass making but he had many problems trying to do glass and soon suffered from nervous headaches and weakness. He resigned from the glass forge in 1831 only having made 1 piece that was passable.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Chapter 6: He smells the truth
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