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This paper contains some of the results and a description of the methods employed in a series of experiments on the rate of change of an electric current, immediately after the application or reversal of a constant electromotive force, in a circuit containing the magnetizing coil of a large electromagnet or the primary coil of a transformer.

Includes 14 graphs of experimental results, two pages of diagrams of experimental apparatus, and one photographic print of experimental apparatus.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Received 6 April 1894. Read 24 May 1894. Communicated by Lord Kelvin.

A version of this paper was published in volume 184 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On the measurement of the magnetic properties of iron'.

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AP/70/9
Earliest possible date
1894
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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122 pages
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Manuscript
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Thomas Gray

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Thomas Gray, Paper, 'On the measurement of magnetic properties of iron' by Thomas Gray, 1894, AP/70/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_70_9/paper-on-the-measurement-of-magnetic-properties-of-iron-by-thomas-gray, accessed on 12 September 2024

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