The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (... Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1836-1869) Vol. 2, 1840 - 1844 On Mr. Faraday's Experiments on the ...

Professor Faraday did not ... bodies by heat ; which was illustrated by experiments with tourmelin, the substance in which this property was first observed.

Faraday was also the first to propose the idea that magnetic ... He was dyslexic and struggled with reading and writing, yet his brilliant experiments revolutionized science.