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The paper is divided into three principal parts: the distribution of the ions of copper sulphate on silver plates; analogies between the distribution of ions and that of static electricity; and analysis of electrolytic fields.

Marked on front as 'Archives'. Includes nine diagrams in the text relating to experimental setup and results.

Subject: Physics / Electricity

Received November 1881. Communicated by [John Hall] Gladstone.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 31 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Experimental researches into electric distribution as manifested by that of the radicles of electrolytes'.

Reference number
AP/61/15
Earliest possible date
1881
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
17 pages
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Manuscript
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Alfred Tribe

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Alfred Tribe, Unpublished paper, 'Experimental researches into electric distribution' by Alfred Tribe, 1881, AP/61/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_61_15/unpublished-paper-experimental-researches-into-electric-distribution-by-alfred-tribe, accessed on 04 November 2024

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