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His teacher beat him so badly he never went back to school. 🙏🇬🇧 He had a speech impediment. He couldn't even say his own name. He invented the modern world. Michael Faraday. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Son of a blacksmith. His family went hungry. No education. No prospects. Nothing. At fourteen he got a job binding books. And he read everything he could. He found an article on electricity. It changed everything. 📚⚡️ He built his own experiments from old bottles and scrap wood. A customer gave him a ticket to a science lecture. He went. He sat. He took notes. Three hundred pages. He bound them himself. And sent them to the lecturer. The lecturer hired him. In 1821, he invented the electric motor. In 1831, the electric generator. Then the transformer. A bookbinder's apprentice gave the world electricity. Every light in your house. Every hospital. Every factory. Everything that runs on electricity exists because of him. They offered him a knighthood. He refused. They asked him to build chemical weapons. He refused. They offered him burial in Westminster Abbey. He refused. He had always loved science more than money. He started the Christmas Lectures for children. They're still running today. Albert Einstein kept three portraits on his study wall. Newton. Maxwell. And Faraday. Einstein said: "England has always produced the best physicists." A blacksmith's son. Beaten out of school. Couldn't speak his own name. He gave the world electricity. Then asked for nothing in return. Be part of us. https://t.co/wN9S2gRUuR Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧