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One of the bookbinder's customers gave Faraday free tickets to lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution, and after attending, Faraday conceived the goal of working for the great scientist.

Faraday, Michael 2009

It took an outsider to see where Newton was lacking: Michael Faraday, a 19th-century physicist and chemist who hauled himself up, one old textbook at a time, from a bookbinder's workshop to one of London's most eminent lecture platforms.

Einstein's LanguageA Peak Behind Einstein's Genius Elyse Graham 2006

Institution as an assistant; and eventually the mantle of the brilliant apothecary's boy fell upon the worthy shoulders of the equally brilliant bookbinder's apprentice.

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

I _waked_ it at my cousin's the bookbinder's, who is now with God; or, if he is not, it's no fault of mine.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

Not being the collector of the volumes in his workshop, chance alone being responsible for the heterogeneous display, -- to-day a sentimental love-tale, to-morrow a medical treatise, the next day a theological work, -- it followed that the poor little bookbinder's head was filled with as confused a mass of lore, religious and profane, as ever cast in its lot in the sum of human knowledge.

Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Various

The edges of the leaves of books and letter paper are gilded whilst in a horizontal position in the bookbinder's press or some arrangement of the same nature, by first applying a composition formed of four parts of Armenian-bole and one of candied sugar, ground together with water to a proper consistence, and laid on by

Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets Daniel Young

Humphry Davy, in the humble person of a bookbinder's apprentice, of the man who will probably stand out forever in the history of science as the ideal scientific man -- Michael

Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

I run then to the bookbinder's, where I left my Johnson, who lives close by in the square.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

In short, Mrs. Barkany very soon learned to anticipate her bookbinder's speeches, and would say, with a pretty smile: "Well, am I Esmeralda to-day?" or, "I wager that I am reminding you of the Duchess; tell me, am I right or not?"

Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Various

Faraday from the bookbinder's bench, made him the companion of his travels, and incidentally poured out the overplus of his own creative energy upon the youth who has recently been called "perhaps the most remarkable discoverer of the nineteenth century."

The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921