Unpublished paper, 'On the law which connects the various magneto-electric phenomena lately discovered by Dr [Michael] Faraday' by William Ritchie

Description

Ritchie describes experiments designed to the prove the law of equal and opposite reaction in relation to electromagnetism, whereby a current of voltaic electricity can induce magnetism, and likewise magnets can induce voltaic currents.

John George Children's initials appear below the date received. Minor annotations appear throughout in graphite.

Subject: Physics

Received by the Royal Society on 12 December 1832. Read 13 December 1832. Ordered not to be printed 14 [February?] 1833.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the Law which connects the various Magneto-electric Phenomena lately discovered by Dr. Faraday'.

Reference number

AP/15/25

Earliest possible date

1832

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

11 pages

Format

Manuscript