Monthly Archives: November 2014

Preparing to usher in The Age of Electricity ‘I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.’ Michael Faraday,    Royal Institution Lecture notes of 1858 I must admit the connection to Faraday is somewhat tenuous, but the timing is evocative of one of the most exciting and important periods in the history of science, and that sparks my interest.  I like to imagine Faraday in the town, along the beach and who knows, perhaps also finding inspiration walking along the cliffs to Fairlight (as Baird would do, 90 years later).    Certainly, Faraday was in Hastings at probably the most important time of his scientific career.