Early Life | Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

“We know little of his schooling there could, indeed, be little to know and in 1804, at the age of 13, he was engaged as an errand boy at a bookseller's shop in Blandford Street. Newspapers in those days were expensive articles and, except by the very wealthy, were hired, and not bought. One part of Faraday's duties was to take out these papers to the different borrowers, and to collect them when the allotted number of hours had expired.”