While a 12-year-old apprentice, Michael Faraday attends a free science lecture by the great Sir Humphrey Davey (creator of the Davey lamp, still used by campers), Head of Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University.

Young Faraday took such detailed notes (sending them to Sir Humphrey) that Davey later hired Faraday as his assistant, then his successor.

Besides being one of the great physics and chemistry scientists of his century, Faraday became perhaps the greatest science demonstrator of all times. He could perform before Queen Victoria and "crowned heads of Europe". This is decidely nontypical and bravura, since a famous physics demonstrator of our time said, "The secret of successful science demonstration is to act as if you intended whatever happens."

Gratefully remembering his beginnings, Faraday instituted Christmas Vacation science lectures for children at Cavendish and science lectures for adults. In an accompanying file, "Man Runs -- Radio Waves", we see revolutionsry consequences from one of these adult lectures, contributing to The Electrical Industrial Revolution and leading to The Electronic Industrial Revolution.