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Schools event: Feel the Power

2013-06-27

� Electricity is so useful to us that we don't often think about how it actually works. Scientists working at the Ri over a hundred years ago helped us all to use and control electricity. We&...
Science in the making exhibition

Explore over 200 years of history making science. From the odds and ends that became the first elecrical transformer to the tube that told us why the sky is blue, you can see the objects that Ri scientists built and used in some of the world's most famous experiments over the last 200 years. Explore Faraday's original 1850?s magnetic laboratory!
The spark of life

2012-10-16

Prof Frances Ashcroft

We are all familiar with the idea that machines are powered by electricity, but perhaps not so aware that this is also true for ourselves. Award-winning physiologist Frances Ashcroft will weave real-l...
Michael Faraday for beginners

The RI is very proud of its connection to Michael Faraday. You may not have heard of him before, but he is one of the world's most important scientists. His discoveries, made in our basement in our building in Mayfair, helped to make the modern world how we know it today.
Michael Faraday 1791-1867

Michael Faraday made some of the most important scientific discoveries of the 19th century here at the Royal Institution.