Unpublished paper, 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity' by William Thomson
Reference number: AP/37/23
Date: 19 April 1854
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Thomson writes on the thermal effects of electric currents in unequally heated conductors, and suggests that an electric current must exercise a convective effect on heat in a homogeneous metallic conductor of which different parts are kept at different temperatures.
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Physics
Received 20 April 1854. Read May 1854.
Written by Thomson at Glasgow College [Scotland].
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 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity'.
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- AP/37/23
- Earliest possible date
- 19 April 1854
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 14 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Thomson, Unpublished paper, 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity' by William Thomson, 19 April 1854, AP/37/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_37_23/unpublished-paper-account-of-researches-in-thermo-electricity-by-william-thomson, accessed on 17 May 2025
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Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0016
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Archived papers: volume 37, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1853-1855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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