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Paper, 'Odours passing through glass by electricity' by Johann Heinrich Winkler

Reference number: L&P/2/217

Date: 23 November 1750

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Subject: Chemistry/Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of professor Winkler's experiments relating to odours passing through electrised globes and tubes, being the extract and translation from the Latin of two letters sent by that gentleman to Cromwell Mortimer, M. D. Secretary of the Royal Society. With an account of the result of some experiments made here with globes and tubes, transmitted from Leipsic by Mr. Winkler to the Royal Society, in order to verify the facts before mentioned, by Mr. W. Watson, F. R. S'

Read 20 June 1751

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L&P/2/217
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23 November 1750
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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Johann Heinrich Winkler

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Johann Heinrich Winkler, Paper, 'Odours passing through glass by electricity' by Johann Heinrich Winkler, 23 November 1750, L&P/2/217, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_217/paper-odours-passing-through-glass-by-electricity-by-johann-heinrich-winkler, accessed on 14 July 2026

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