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Grove writes that soft iron, when magnetised, emits a sound or musical note. He also mentions an experiment of his own, published in January 1845, where a tube was filled with the liquid in which magnetic oxide had been prepared, and surrounded by a coil; this showed, to a spectator looking through it, a considerable increase of the transmitted light when the coil was electrised.

Annotations in pencil on front page. Marked on front as 'To be printed'.

Subject: Physics / Magnetism

Received 24 May 1849.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 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 direct production of heat by magnetism'.

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AP/32/11
Earliest possible date
23 May 1849
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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44 pages
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Manuscript

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William Robert Grove

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William Robert Grove, Unpublished paper, 'On the direct production of heat by magnetism' by W R [William Robert] Grove, 23 May 1849, AP/32/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_32_11/unpublished-paper-on-the-direct-production-of-heat-by-magnetism-by-w-r-william-robert-grove, accessed on 15 April 2026

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