Master Minds of Modern Science (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Master Minds of Modern ScienceNot much more than a century ago people laughed at Galvani for making a frog's leg twitch by the application of an electric current, and less than a hundred years have passed since Faraday was tinkering with magnets and wire. Those people who asked What's the use? Did not dream that these men, with Volta, Humphry Davy, and a few others, were initiating the mighty changes in the conditions in which we live brought about by the development of electric light, electric power, the tele phone, and wireless.Barely fifty years ago even the schoolmaster thought little of Science. The average schoolboy got an hour weekly of what he called stinks and regarded it as a splendid opportunity for taking it easy and sucking sweets. Science was looked upon as something apart from ordinary life, and many, especially religious people, hated and feared it. George Gissing wrote: I see it restoring barbarism under the mask of civilization. I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.