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Unpublished paper, 'On the connexion of radiant heat with electricity and magnetism' by Élie Wartmann

Reference number: AP/28/26

Date: 13 April 1846

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Wartmann, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Academy of Lausanne, shares details of experiments he has undertaken using a Locatelli's or an Agard's lamp with a parabolic reflector. He describes sources of heat, apparatus for polarisation, diathermanous bodies, electrical apparatus, thermometric apparatus, and his results.

Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Physics / Radiation

Received 30 April 1846. Communicated by Michael Faraday.

Written by Wartmann in Lausanne [France].

Reference number
AP/28/26
Earliest possible date
13 April 1846
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

Élie Wartmann

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Élie Wartmann, Unpublished paper, 'On the connexion of radiant heat with electricity and magnetism' by Élie Wartmann, 13 April 1846, AP/28/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_28_26/unpublished-paper-on-the-connexion-of-radiant-heat-with-electricity-and-magnetism-by-élie-wartmann, accessed on 22 April 2026

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