What if a kid too poor to buy bread grew up to give the whole world electricity?

The Day Michael Faraday Was Born!

Meet the poor blacksmith's son who became the king of electricity!

A poor kid who taught himself science invented the electric motor we still use today!

On September 22, 1791, a baby boy named Michael Faraday was born in a tiny room in London, England. His family was so poor that sometimes they only had one loaf of bread to last the whole week!

But here's where it gets exciting — this boy would grow up to change the world forever!

Michael couldn't afford fancy schools, so he taught himself by reading books while working as a bookbinder's helper. Imagine learning science from the very books you're supposed to be gluing together! Pretty clever, right?

One day, a customer gave young Michael tickets to see a famous scientist named Humphry Davy give lectures. Michael was SO amazed that he took 300 pages of notes and made them into a beautiful book. When he showed it to Davy, the scientist was impressed and gave Michael a job!

💡 Faraday never went to university, but a unit of electrical measurement called the 'farad' is named after him — that's like having a trophy that lasts forever!