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EXACTLY a century ago this month Michael Faraday entered the Royal Institution for the first time. He was then a youth of twenty, in the last year of his apprenticeship to a bookbinder in Blandford Street. Among the meagre records we possess of Faraday's early life we find the following:—
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Proc. Roy. Soc., vol. 76 A, p. 235. 1905.
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Very High Temperatures 1 . Nature 89, 514–518 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089514a0
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