THE FAMOUS BRITISH MICHAEL FARADAY

1). Could you imagine your life without television, radio, telephones, without electricity? 2)."Of course not!" - this is the answer. 3). The discovery of how electricity could be generated was one of the great scientific events of history. 4). It was made by Michael Faraday.

5). Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in London in a poor family. 6). His father, a blacksmith, couldn't find work for a long time, and so when Michael was 14 years old he was sent to work. 7). He found work in a bookshop. 8). There he learnt how to bind books and read as much as he could. 9). He was especially fond of books about science. 10). Once a customer at the bookshop gave him a ticket to a lecture by Humphrey Davy, England's greatest scientist of that time. 11). After some time Michael got a job of an assistant in a laboratory of Davy. 12). He got interested in the strange new power, electricity, which had been discovered by that time. 13). Michael Faraday spent long weeks and months studying this strange force. 14). At last he tried to move a magnet between coils of wires. 15). He discovered that electricity passed from the magnet to the wires, and could become a strong electric current.

16). This is the method which is used in every electric gene­rator throughout the world. 17). This was the beginning of all great machines that make our electricity today.

волоки. 15). Он обнаружил, что электричество проходит от магнита к проволоке и может стать сильным электрическим током.

16). Это тот метод, который используется в любом электриче­ском генераторе во всем мире. 17). Это было началом всех больших машин, которые вырабатывают электричество сегодня.