Unpublished paper, 'On the method employed for exploding a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases by a spark obtained from a common magnet' by William Ritchie
Reference number: AP/15/26
Date: 1832
Description
Ritchie recounts his methodology for creating an experiment in which oxygen and hydrogen gases are exploding using a spark from an artificial magnet. Includes one figure in the text.
Subject: Physics / Chemistry
Read to the Royal Society on 24 May 1832. Ordered not to be printed 28 June 1832.
- Reference number
- AP/15/26
- Earliest possible date
- 1832
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Ritchie, Unpublished paper, 'On the method employed for exploding a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen gases by a spark obtained from a common magnet' by William Ritchie, 1832, AP/15/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_15_26/unpublished-paper-on-the-method-employed-for-exploding-a-mixture-of-oxygen-and-hydrogen-gases-by-a-spark-obtained-from-a-common-magnet-by-william-ritchie, accessed on 13 August 2026
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Archived papers: volume 15, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1831-1832
1830-1832 Reference number: AP/15
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