Why Is Michael Faraday Important

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Vito Gulla

English 100

12 May 2015 Why Is Michael Faraday the most Important Person?

The issue of who the most important person in history might be has been widely debated in today’s world recently. It is an important issue because it concerns people in the society with different views of who the most important person in history is. A variety of different argument have been put forward about this issue. This essay will consider argument whether Michael Faraday is the most important person or not. It will also establish reasons why Michael Faraday is the most important person in history.

Michael Faraday was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century. A British physicist and chemist, Faraday

In 1804, he assisted as an errand teenager for the bookseller George Riebau, he delivered newspapers with other things, who a year later, indentured Faraday for a period of seven years. With simple education, it was during the seven years when he was serving as an errand boy, he read several books that interested him into becoming a scientist. Not only did Faraday had only little education, but he also had little resources in educating himself. Regardless of the little resources he had, he still kept reading books that improved his knowledge and understanding. It also determined the direction his life will take. Faraday then became really interested in science than ever before, but in the branch electricity. This shows how Faraday was able to pursue his dream even with his unfortunate

Another example is innovation. The amount of innovation that have been done since the invention of electricity have been enormous, e.g. telephone. Without the discovery of electricity, there wouldn’t be the creation of telephone. And we all know how important communication is. Another example is health use, electricity have vastly been used in different form, but the most important one is that it is used to help people cure diseases like cancer by performing surgery. Surgery was not in existence before the discovery of electricity, so with that, we know people that have certain diseases are likely to die because there was no way to cure themselves. Therefore, with all this examples, we can now say that electricity have played a very important role in human life, if not the most important, thanks to Michael