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THE USEFULNESS OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE
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546 HARPER'S MAGAZINE The answer is interesting. Michael Faraday's father was a blacksmith; Michael himself was apprenticed to a bookbinder. In 1812, when he was al-ready twenty-one years of age, a friend took him to the Royal Institution where he heard Sir Humphrey Davy deliver four lectures on chemical subjects. He kept notes and sent a copy ...
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