Unpublished extract of a letter, 'On the theory of the electric telegraph' from William Thomson to Gabriel George Stokes
Reference number: AP/37/22
Date: 28 October 1854
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Thomson aims to indicate some important practical applications of the theory of the electric telegraph, especially in estimating the dimensions of telegraph wires and cables required for long distances. He states that he reserves a more complete development and illustration of the mathematical parts of the investigation for a paper on the conduction of electricity and heat through solids, which he intends to lay before the Royal Society on another occasion.
Subject: Electricity
Received 3 May 1855.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the theory of the electric telegraph'.
- Reference number
- AP/37/22
- Earliest possible date
- 28 October 1854
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- Ink on paper
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- 19 pages
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- Manuscript
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III. On the theory of the electric telegraph External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0093
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Archived papers: volume 37, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1853-1855
1853-1855 Reference number: AP/37
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