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Faraday Facts
Inventions and Discoveries
Influences
Religion
Miscellaneous
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September 22, 1791
What is Michael Faraday's date of birth?
100

What was the conductive enclosure that blocks external static electric fields?

What is the Faraday cage?

100

What site are we visiting where he worked?

What is the Royal Institution?

100

What Christian sect was the Faraday family a part of?

What is Sandemanianism?

100
Faraday first became an assistant to this chemist.
Who is Humphrey Davy?
200

What supernatural hoax did Faraday disprove?

What is the existence of ghosts?

200
The process where a conductor is placed in a changing magnetic field and causes the production of a voltage across the conductor.
What is electromagnetic induction?
200
What war was Faraday requested to produce poisonous gas for?
What is the Crimean war?
200

Within his church, Faraday served in this high-ranking leadership role, which required him to preach sermons and preside over the congregation's discipline.

What is an elder?

200
Faraday refused to accept this honor for his work.
What is knighthood?
300
Faraday apprenticed for this job as a young teenager.
What is a book binder?
300

What was the chemical that Faraday discovered early on?

What is benzene?

300

What substance that Faraday discovered contributed to the invention of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and dyes?

What is benzene?

300

Because Faraday believed God's creation was perfect and balanced, he was a staunch advocate for this scientific principle, arguing that "forces" could not be created or destroyed by man.

What is the Conservation of Energy?
300
Faraday declined this position at the Royal Society not once, but twice.
What is the presidency?
400
Faraday's family suffered from great money problems. This was his father's occupation.
What is a blacksmith?
400
Created by Faraday, this invention is closely related to a modern day generator.
What is a dynamo?
400

What scientist mathematically explained many of Faraday's ideas?

Who is James Maxwell?

400

Faraday responded to Davy's accusation of plagiarism how?

What is with high respect and non-confrontation.

400

Name at least three sources of electricity in nature.

What are animals, clouds, friction, and heating substances?

500

What skill did Faraday have that most teenage girls have today?

What is good babysitter?

500
Faraday can be given some credit towards towards the origination of these terms.
What are electrode, ion, and cathode?
500

What two units are named after Faraday?

What is Farads and the Faraday?

500

Faraday once spent several weeks suspended from his church for this "offense," which involved accepting an invitation from Queen Victoria that conflicted with a Sunday service.

What is missing Sunday worship (or dining with the Queen on the Sabbath)?

500

What location were we at on this trip that Faraday also visited?

What is Interlaken, Switzerland?