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Faraday's basement laboratory, where electricity was tamed, under the Royal Institution's lecture theatre, free.
Free
Also in Science & Engineering.
The Royal Institution was founded in 1799 to bring science to the public, and it has been doing it from 21 Albemarle Street ever since: Humphry Davy lectured here to crowds whose carriages made it the first one-way street in London, and his assistant Michael Faraday, a bookbinder's apprentice who had sat in the audience, went on in the basement to discover electromagnetic induction in 1831, the principle behind every generator and transformer. That laboratory has been restored where it stood, with his bench, his coils and his notebooks, and the museum around it holds the institution's apparatus from two centuries of discovery, ten chemical elements among them first isolated in this building. Upstairs is the steeply raked lecture theatre where the Christmas Lectures for children have been given since 1825 and are still broadcast every year. Entry is free.
| Monday | 09:00 – 17:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 09:00 – 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 – 17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 – 17:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
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