Unpublished paper, 'On some effects of transmitting electric currents through magnetized electrolytes' by George Gore

Description

This communication concerns a class of electromagnetic rotations observed and examined by the author. The rotations are produced in liquids by means of axial electric currents, either in the interior of vertical magnets, electro or permanent, or near the poles of such magnets, and differ from rotations previously produced in liquids placed in those positions, by the absence of radial currents, to the influence of which rotations in the interior of hollow magnets have hitherto been ascribed. Gore shows that a column of an electrolyte placed under similar conditions to an iron wire or rod, when subjected to electromagnetic torsion (i.e., enclosed by an electromagnetic helix, and traversed axially by an electric current), is twisted in a similar manner to the wire or bar. This effect, however, in the case of a liquid is not limited to paramagnetic substances, nor is the direction of torsion altered by the magnetic character of the liquid.

Annotations in ink throughout. Includes 9 diagrams in the text relating to magnetic coils. Followed by an appendix including one diagram of equipment used by Gore in his experiments.

Subject: Physics / Electromagnetism

Received 29 November 1881.

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 'On some effects of transmitting electric currents through magnetised electrolytes'.

Reference number

AP/61/9

Earliest possible date

1881

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

136 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram