Tinkerers and Geniuses.


The name of Michael Faraday figures in the movie. There are several allusions to the Michael Faraday of old, the experimental physicist who tinkered with a lot of apparatus on his bench.

The REAL genius behind the outlining of the electromagnetic spectrum was not Michael Faraday but JAMES CLERK MAXWELL. There was a man with a brain whose name justly comes down to us through history! Leave Faraday to his humble bench-top hobby.

Signed: Robert J. Maxwell.

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are you related? .. as you have part of the name max in your monikor ...

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It's just a joke. My name is Robert Maxwell, so I sometimes run down Faraday and exalt James Clerk Maxwell -- no relation.

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Hello, Robert. Just a note to thank you for the fine review of Darling by Schlesinger. Wish I'd read it in time to spare me watching the film...

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