Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1946
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Nature, Volume 157, Issue 3984, pp. 305 (1946).
Physics
Scientific paper
Dr. Clement Webb and Prof. Bernard Cohen discuss in Nature of February 16, p. 196, the origins of two anecdotes associated with Faraday's demonstration of magneto-electricity mentioned in my book ``Discovery'', published in 1916. In correspondence with Sir Henry Tizard a short time ago, I suggested that Faraday was aware of Franklin's apt reply, ``What is the use of a new-born child?'' when asked the use of an invention, and he quoted it in connexion with his own discovery when asked a similar question. In my book, the inquiry was said to have been made at the end of a lecture at the Royal Institution whereas, as Prof. Cohen shows, the occasion was a lecture at the City Philosophical Society and the subject was not magneto-electricity but the discovery of chlorine by Scheele.
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