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Unpublished paper, 'On the electric conducting power of alloys: Part II' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen

Reference number: AP/43/8

Date: 1859

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Matthiessen presents experimental data relating to research published in Philosophical Transactions (see PT/60/10). He presents a table of experimental results on the electric conducting power of alloys. Marked on front 'Not for print' and 'Archives to be preserved G G S [George Gabriel Stokes]'.

Subject: Physics / Electricity

Received 17 November 1859. Communicated by [Charles] Wheatstone.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the electric conducting power of alloys'.

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AP/43/8
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1859
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
21 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus Matthiessen

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Augustus Matthiessen, Unpublished paper, 'On the electric conducting power of alloys: Part II' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen, 1859, AP/43/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_43_8/unpublished-paper-on-the-electric-conducting-power-of-alloys-part-ii-by-a-augustus-matthiessen, accessed on 08 February 2025

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