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The first electrical battery, invented by Volta in 1800 in Genoa, Italy. This voltaic pile, made before 1813, was presented to

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The actual laboratory where Michael Faraday made his fundamental discoveries of the magneto-optical effect and of diamagnetism

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Dewar’s first-ever vacuum flask. Created in 1892 to hold liquefied gases at extremely low temperatures, this object is the

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These liquids are some of the first examples of metallic gold colloids, made by Michael Faraday over 150 years ago.

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The first ever prototype of Davy’s miner’s safety lamp. Created in 1815, it prevented the methane gas present in the depths of

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The first surviving Faraday apparatus, dating from 1822, demonstrates his work in magnetic rotation. Faraday used this mercury

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Faraday created the first transformer in August 1831. A few months later he designed and made this simple piece of apparatus

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Made by Faraday in his laboratory in the basement of the Royal Institution in August 1831, thus creating the first ever electric