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See also additional letters in the collection from Faraday.
The portrait etching, signed SPT (Silvanus Phillips Thompson), is autographed by Faraday. A philosopher as well as a scientist, Faraday experimented with electricity, chemistry, radiation, and physics. Sir Humphrey Davy, whose influence secured Faraday his first position as a laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution, was his mentor, and his contemporary John Tyndall (whose work, along with Davy's, is also represented in the collection) wrote Faraday's biography in 1872. Faraday became director of the laboratory in the Royal Institution in 1825 where he devised a lecture series, taught chemistry at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, became a fellow of the Royal Society as well as a scientific adviser to the Corporation of Trinity House, and his portrait appears on the Bank of England's twenty-pound note.
Full Title
[Portrait etching] [mid-nineteenth century] / S[ilvanus] P[hillips] T[hompson].
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Language
English
Type
Subject (Name)
Identifier
typep; abyes; 19cty; Science; Arts
i-remain_2321
Note
typep; abyes; 19cty; Science; Arts
Extent
[1] leaf.
Physical Description
Notes on Faraday accompany the etching.
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Record Origin
Converted from Dublin Core to MODS during migration from CONTENTdm to Islandora
Date Other
[mid-nineteenth century].
Thompson, . S. P. . 1851- 1916.; F. . M. . 1791- 1867. (n.d.). [Portrait etching] [mid-nineteenth century] / S[ilvanus] P[hillips] T[hompson]. (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/i-remain/portrait-etching-mid-nineteenth-century/silvanus-phillips
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips 1851-1916.; Faraday Michael 1791-1867. n.d. “[Portrait Etching] [mid-Nineteenth Century] S[ilvanus] P[hillips] T[hompson]”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/i-remain/portrait-etching-mid-nineteenth-century/silvanus-phillips.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips 1851-1916.; Faraday Michael 1791-1867. [Portrait Etching] [mid-Nineteenth Century] S[ilvanus] P[hillips] T[hompson]. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/i-remain/portrait-etching-mid-nineteenth-century/silvanus-phillips.
