Michael Faraday: A Ticket to the Light
A novel from the series "Novels from the Lives of Scientists"
Faraday's life as you have never read it: the true story of the bookbinder's boy who made the world turn with a wire and a magnet.
What you'll learn
- Follow Faraday's life from his poor childhood to his last days as one connected story
- Understand how electricity becomes motion, and how motion makes electricity, through everyday examples
- See how a book he bound with his own hands opened a door that letters could not open
- Learn how a boy who left school became the greatest experimenter of his time
- Meet his teacher Davy and the scientists who lived alongside him and shaped him
- Tell what really happened from what the author imagined in every chapter
About this book
In a basement in London, on 3 September 1821, a man of 29 lowers a light wire into a bowl with a magnet standing in the middle, and connects the electricity. The wire turns around the magnet, and turns, and does not stop. For the first time in the world, electricity becomes motion.
This is a novel, not a biography. It starts with a poor boy who has one loaf of bread to last him the week, follows him as an apprentice who binds books and reads each one before he closes it, then as a young man with 4 tickets in his pocket to the lectures of the scientist Davy, and then as the greatest experimenter of his time. The events, dates and names are real, and the story is told in scenes and dialogue as if you were watching it.
The science is explained with pictures from daily life: a small horse tied to a stake, a water mill, iron filings on a sheet of paper, a candle. No equations and no difficult terms. A final section tells you clearly what is real and what is imagined in every chapter.
The book is written in Arabic.
Who this book is for
- Young readers aged 13 to 18
- Lovers of novels and life stories
- Parents looking for useful reading for their children
- Teachers
- Anyone who loves science but not equations
Why read this book
- 14 chapters in 240 pages
- Real events, dates and names
- Simple, gripping Arabic
- A line drawing at the start of every chapter
