The British scientist who performed Faraday's ice pail experiment in 1843 was born on what date?
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Faraday's ice pail experiment Faraday's ice pail experiment is a simple electrostatics experiment performed in 1843 by British scientist Michael Faraday that demonstrates the effect of electrostatic induction on a conducting container. For a container, Faraday used a metal pail made to hold ice, which gave the experiment its name. The experiment shows that an electric charge enclosed inside a conducting shell induces an equal charge on the shell, and that in an electrically conducting body, the charge resides entirely on the surface. It also demonstrates the principles behind electromagnetic shielding such as employed in the "Faraday cage". The ice pail experiment was the first precise "quantitative" experiment on electrostatic charge. It is still used today in lecture demonstrations and physics laboratory courses to teach the principles of electrostatics.
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Michael Faraday Michael Faraday FRS ( ; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
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James Wimshurst James Wimshurst (13 April 1832 – 3 January 1903) was an English inventor, engineer and shipwright. Though Wimshurst did not patent his machines and the various improvements that he made to them, his refinements to the electrostatic generator led to its becoming widely known as the Wimshurst machine.
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Thomas Hill Easterfield Sir Thomas Hill Easterfield {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (4 March 1866 – 1 March 1949) was a New Zealand chemist and university professor. He was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England on 4 March 1866. Easterfield was one of the four founding professors of the Victoria University, Wellington.
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Faraday Institute for Science and Religion The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is an interdisciplinary academic research institute based at St Edmund's College, Cambridge, England.
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Benjamin Herschel Babbage Benjamin Herschel Babbage (6 August 1815 – 22 October 1878) was an English engineer, scientist, explorer and politician, best known for his work in the colony of South Australia. He invariably signed his name "B. Herschel Babbage" and was frequently referred to as "Herschel Babbage".
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Charles Frewen Jenkin Charles Frewen Jenkin, CBE, FRS (24 September 186523 August 1940) was a British engineer and academic. He held the first chair of engineering at the University of Oxford as Professor of Engineering Science.
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James Clerk Maxwell Foundation The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation is a registered Scottish charity set up in 1977. By supporting physics and mathematics, it honours one of the greatest of physicists, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), and works to increase the public awareness of science. It maintains a small museum in Maxwell's birthplace which is in the ownership of the Foundation.
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Joseph Allen Baker Joseph Allen Baker (10 April 1852 – 3 July 1918) was a Canadian-born British engineer, specialising in machinery for the confectionery and bakery industries and later in transportation systems, who was also a Liberal Party politician in London.
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John Harrison John Harrison (3 April [O.S. 24 March] 1693 – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. His solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long-distance sea travel. The problem he solved was considered so important following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707 that the British Parliament offered financial rewards of up to £20,000 (equivalent to £ today) under the 1714 Longitude Act. Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 public poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.
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Ray Lankester Sir Edwin Ray Lankester {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (15 May 1847 – 13 August 1929) was a British zoologist.
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Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (24 February [O.S. 13 February] 1743 19 June 1820) was a British naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences.
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Ewart Farvis William Ewart John Farvis (12 December 1911 – 12 October 2005) was a pioneering electronics engineer and educator. His war-time service was in electronic countermeasures. In his subsequent career at the University of Edinburgh he initiated the Department of Electrical Engineering, establishing its capabilities in silicon device processing and enhancing industrial interactions through Wolfson Microelectronics.
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Abraham Brook Abraham Brook (fl. 1789) was an English bookseller in Norwich, now remembered as an experimental physicist, working with electrometers and vacuum flasks.
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Adolph Friedrich Lindemann Adolph Friedrich Lindemann (13 May 1846 – 25 August 1957) was a British engineer, businessman, and amateur astronomer of German origin.
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Henry Foster (scientist) Henry Foster {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1797 – 5 February 1831) was a British naval officer and scientist who took part in expeditions to both the Arctic and Antarctic, and made various notable scientific observations.
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Oliver Lodge Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (12 June 1851 – 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz' proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures (""The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors""), Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.
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E. E. B. Mackintosh Colonel Ernest Elliot Buckland Mackintosh {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (3 November 1880 – 25 November 1957) was a Director and Secretary of the Science Museum in London, England.
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James Stuart (scientist) James Stuart (January 1843 – 12 October 1913) was a British educator and politician.
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Charles Babbage Charles Babbage {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
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George Birkbeck Dr George Birkbeck ( ; 10 January 1776 – 1 December 1841) was a British physician, academic, philanthropist, pioneer in adult education and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Strathclyde. He is the founder of Birkbeck, University of London and was head of the Chemical Society. He is one of the creators of the earliest chemistry laboratory for undergraduates at University College London.
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Henry Maxwell Lyte Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte (or Maxwell-Lyte ) KCB (29 May 1848 – 28 October 1940) was an English historian and archivist. He served as Deputy Keeper of the Public Records from 1886 to 1926, and was the author of numerous books including a history of Eton College.