oa Faraday’s Lecture on Platinum

In the course of his long researches Michael Faraday more than once turned his attention to platinum and its properties, and on February 22nd 1861 —when in his 71st year— he delivered his famous ‘Lecture on Platinum’ to the members of the Royal Institution. An abridged version of this address is reprinted here for the historical interest it will undoubtedly have for the metallurgist of today and for the picture it conveys of a great but modest scientist