Built in 1864, the Experimental Lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf was used to test maritime lighting equipment and train lighthouse keepers. Michael Faraday, then Scientific Advisor to Trinity House, conducted many experiments there, including the first investigations using electricity in lighthouses.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) is arguably one of the world’s most influential scientists and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) kept a picture of him on his study wall. Faraday made great advances in the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry and constructed the electric dynamo, the ancestor of modern power generators and the electric motor.