Tentant d'échapper à la police qui venait l'arrêter, il avait relié plusieurs câbles et les avait attachés à un radiateur.
In an attempt to escape his arrest by the police, he had connected several cables and had tied them to a radiator.
Ce jour-là, le 26 septembre 1828, j’étais tendu comme jamais dans l’histoire récente de l’univers, puisque Faraday avait relié une plaque de cuivre à un simple galvanomètre.
Then, on 26th September 1828, I was as tense as never before in the recent history of the universe, because Faraday had connected the copper plate to a simple galvanometer.
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