ABSTRACT
All practising scientists carrying out experiments keep laboratory records, usually in the form of a day to day account of experiments performed, with technical details such as the weights of materials used, and the experimental conditions. Faraday was no exception to this rule, but his notebooks are probably more extensive than those of any other great scientist. They are also notable for existing in an unbroken series from his first arrival as Humphry Davy’s assistant right up to the end of his life in the laboratory. What makes them truly unique, however, is the fact that they remain to this day within the same building at 21 Albemarle Street where they were written.
