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Description: | This bronze nameplate is taken from Metropolitan Railway locomotive Number 18, which was known as Michael Faraday. In 1927, it was decided to name all the Metropolitan locomotives after famous people associated with the Metropolitan Railway or the area served by the Metropolitan line, Metro-Land.
Michael Faraday was born in 1791. His work and research was fundamental to the development of the electric-powered engine and the electric railway. His main achievements were the discovery of the relationship between electric and magnetic forces, and magnetic rotary polarisation. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1927 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Commissioner : Metropolitan Railway | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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