Michael Faraday started as a blacksmith's son with no formal schooling, binding books for a living until a set of lectures by chemist Humphry Davy pulled him into science. Host Michael Aranda tracks how a bookbinder's apprentice became one of the most cited names in physics, working his way into Davy's lab at the Royal Institution and eventually surpassing his mentor. The episode covers Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic induction, the principle behind every generator and transformer built since, and his laws of electrolysis, which gave chemistry a quantitative link between electric current and chemical change. It also credits him with isolating benzene and inventing the Faraday cage, the shielded enclosure still used to block electromagnetic fields. Faraday never learned the higher mathematics his contemporaries used, and the episode treats that as part of the story rather than a footnote: his physical intuition and hands-on experiments got him to results that theorists then had to catch up to and formalize.