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Memoir on [Isaac] Pulvermacher's chain, by Karl Kreil

Reference number: HS/19/233

Date: 1830s

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Likely enclosure removed from the correspondence between Karl Kreil and Sir John Herschel in HS/11.
Discusses the workings of the Pulvermacher hydro-electric chain which worked as a voltaic battery for self-electrification or electro-therapy. Signed Kreil.

Reference number
HS/19/233
Earliest possible date
1830s
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pp.
Format
Manuscript

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Karl Kreil

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Karl Kreil, Memoir on [Isaac] Pulvermacher's chain, by Karl Kreil, 1830s, HS/19/233, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_233/memoir-on-isaac-pulvermachers-chain-by-karl-kreil, accessed on 17 July 2026

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