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MICHAEL FARADAY was born in 1791, as the son of a working blacksmith in London. During the distress of 1801, when corn rose to more than 9/. a quarter, his family received public relief, and one loaf of bread was allotted weekly to the nine-year-old child. His systematic education was rudimentary in character, for in his thirteenth year he became errand-boy to a bookseller in the neighbourhood of Manchester Square, and was entrusted with the duty of distributing the Sunday newspapers.
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POPE, W. Faraday as a Chemist. Nature 115, 1002–1009 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/1151002a0
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