Experiments using electricity are seen at the Michael Faraday Exhibition in London.
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Short Summary
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- Film ID:
- 1044.13
- Media URN:
- 37092
- Group:
- Pathetones
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 14/12/1931
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:02:31:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:21:48:00 / 01:24:19:00
- Canister:
- PT 090
scottkeir says
"Various shots of exhibits at the Faraday Exhibition: schoolboys crowd around a white statue (not sure who or what this is meant to be); " - the statue at 0:15 - 0:20 that the school children are crowding around is of Michael Faraday. The statue is a copy of the original by John Henry Foley that stands in the entrance to the Royal Institution. The Faraday statue shows him gesturing with his right hand, and holding an induction ring in his left hand - that's visible in the footage. (Two bronze copies are at the IET buildings in London and Stevenage.) See ‘Faraday Centenary Exhibition’, Nature, 128.3231 (1931), 564–67 DOI:10.1038/128564a0 for contemporary note, or James, Frank A. J. L., ‘The Janus Face of Modernity: Michael Faraday in the Twentieth Century: Presidential Address’, The British Journal for the History of Science, 41.4 (2008), 477–516 doi: 0.1017/S000708740800126X for details of the exhibition.