Science & Engineering

The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.

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Michael Faraday statue, Savoy Place

Faraday in bronze outside the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the copy of the marble in the Royal Institution he made famous.

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John Henry Foley's statue of Faraday holding his induction ring, the device with which he found in 1831 that a moving magnet makes electricity, stands in marble in the Royal Institution's hall; this bronze copy was set outside the IET's headquarters on Savoy Place in 1989, so that the engineers who work in what Faraday discovered pass him on the way in. The building behind was the first home of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; the Embankment gardens are below.

Where
Savoy Place, WC2R 0BL
Nearest station
Temple · 4 min walk

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