Davy Faraday Exhibition in Paris

Abstract

AN exhibition devoted to the life and work of Davy and Faraday has been arranged at the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris (which operates in association with the University of Paris) with the close collaboration and support of the Royal Institution, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and the Science Museum, and will remain open until July. The managers of the Royal Institution have lent a number of the relics of Michael Faraday from their collection, as, for example, some of the original apparatus used by him in his experiments and pieces of his laboratory and office equipment. The Council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers has lent a number of Faraday manuscripts and letters and the full-sized Reproduction of the statue of Faraday, the original of which stands on the main staircase in the Royal Institution, which dominated the Faraday Centenary Exhibition at the Albert Hall, London, in 1931. The General Post Office has provided an ingenious working section of an automatic telephone exchange, recently shown at Radiolympia. With the collaboration of the British Council, arrangements have been made for a number of lectures to be delivered at the Exhibition by British men of science and engineers on the life and work of Davy and Faraday.