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If there was one thing Michael Faraday couldn’t stand, this was cacophony.
The unpleasant feeling one gets from hearing awkward-sounding words.
The eminent scientist commissioned his friend, William Whewell (who in addition to being a scientist himself was also a real “wordsmith”) to find the terms now necessary in that science that they were gradually discovering: electromagnetism.
And here we go: “diamagnetism“, “electrode“, “anode“, “ions” (“anions” and “cations“).
He couldn’t make his mind between “cathode” and “skaiode“. Eventually he went for the first (even if I’m sure we all agree the latter is way cooler).
And “Bicarburet of hydrogen“, which sounded magnificently to me. But some killjoy had to change it into “benzene” for some reason…
But what Michael wanted to be called?
Not “physicist” for sure. He despised, in his own words, the “akwardness of three separate sounds of i“.
In his later years, he was offered a knighthood by the Queen Victoria herself. He turned the offer down.
He said he was happy with the way “plain Mr Faraday” sounded.
In the picture, the Inox Bim induction cooking range.
It heats the cooking vessels thanks to the Faraday’s law of induction.
And it doesn’t even sound bad.
