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Paper, 'Researches on the voltaic arc and on the influence which magnetism exercises both on this arc, and on bodies transmitting interrupted electric currents' by [Auguste Arthur] de la Rive

Reference number: PT/32/4i

Date: 1846

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English translation of de la Rive's paper. Original French version found at PT/32/4.

Subject: Physics

Published in English in Philosophical Transactions as 'Quelques recherches sur l'arc voltaïque, et sur l'influence qu'exerce le magnétisme soit sur cet arc soit sur les corps qui transmettent les courants électriques discontinus. - Researches on the voltaic arc, and on the influence which magnetism exerts both on this arc and on bodies transmitting interrupted electric currents'.

Received by the Royal Society on 26 November 1846. Read 7 January 1847.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.

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PT/32/4i
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1846
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35 pages
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Auguste Arthur de la Rive

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Auguste Arthur de la Rive, Paper, 'Researches on the voltaic arc and on the influence which magnetism exercises both on this arc, and on bodies transmitting interrupted electric currents' by [Auguste Arthur] de la Rive, 1846, PT/32/4i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_4i/paper-researches-on-the-voltaic-arc-and-on-the-influence-which-magnetism-exercises-both-on-this-arc-and-on-bodies-transmitting-interrupted-electric-currents-by-auguste-arthur-de-la-rive, accessed on 18 July 2026

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