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Faraday and the Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower at Birminham University. The Faraday Monument is on Vincent Drive near University Gate West in Edgabaston. It is a 5-metre-high bronze sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi that portrays Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electricity, with force lines representing light, sound, magnetism and electricity. The base is inscribed with a quotation from T.S.Eliot's "Dry Savages" stating that the purpose of a university education is "to travel, listen, think and change".

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Author Brian Clift from Dudley, England
Camera location52° 27′ 03.84″ N, 1° 56′ 06.96″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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