Re: [BKARTS] Faraday

[David Lanning <dl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Teri,

... and to add to the story, this is an extract from a talk I gave in Dallas 
a few years ago on archival leathers.........

"As early as 1842, the Athenaeum club in London wanted to know why the 
leather on the books in their library (and incidentally the leather that 
also covered their reading chairs) was breaking down.  It fell to several of 
the Athenaeum's more well-know members, Professors Faraday and Brandt and 
Dr. Prout to discover the reasons.  They discovered that the atmosphere in 
the library was highly acidic due to the impurities given off by the newly 
installed gas lighting.  Others at the same time had come to similar 
conclusions and appropriate methods of venting the offending gases were 
installed."

I understand that Al Capone was also a bookbinder in his early life.  I 
suppose that being a gangster was more exciting and/or lucrative!

best wishes for Christmas and the New Year


David



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Teri L Herbert" <herbertl@xxxxxxxx>
To: <BOOK_ARTS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:33 PM
Subject: Faraday


> I was looking for famous people with chemistry degrees
> and ran across this biography of Michael Faraday
> "Born in 1791 to a poor family in England, Michael Faraday was extremely 
> curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to know more. At 
> age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read 
> every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book 
> of his own. He became interested in the concept of energy, specifically 
> force. Because of his early reading and experiments with the idea of 
> force, he was able to make important discoveries in electricity later in 
> life. He eventually became a famous chemist and physicist. Michael 
> Faraday, one of the world's greatest experimental physicist, is known as 
> the father of the electric motor, electric generator, electric 
> transformer, and electrolysis. He wrote the "Law of Induction" and is 
> known for the "Faraday Effect". Two units in physics were named in his 
> honor, the farad (for capacitance) and the faraday (as a unit of charge)."
> (from the US Dept of Energy site)
> Interesting his early career in bookbinding!
> Teri Lynn Herbert
>
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