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Paper, 'Some attempts to imitate the effects of the torpedo by electricity' by Henry Cavendish

Reference number: L&P/6/152

Date: 1775

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Subject: Physics; marine biology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of some attempts to imitate the effects of the torpedo by electricity.'

Read 18 January 1776

Reference number
L&P/6/152
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1775
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Ink on paper
Page extent
45 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Cavendish

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Henry Cavendish, Paper, 'Some attempts to imitate the effects of the torpedo by electricity' by Henry Cavendish, 1775, L&P/6/152, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_6_152/paper-some-attempts-to-imitate-the-effects-of-the-torpedo-by-electricity-by-henry-cavendish, accessed on 20 April 2026

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