Paper, 'An account of a doubler of electricity' by Abraham Bennet
Reference number: L&P/9/46
Date: 1787
Description
Contains table and two plates.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of a doubler of electricity, or a machine by which the least conceivable quantity of positive or negative electricity may be continually doubled, till it becomes perceptible by common electrometers, or visible in sparks'
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- Reference number
- L&P/9/46
- Earliest possible date
- 1787
- Physical description
- Ink on paper, a table and two plates
- Page extent
- 13 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Abraham Bennet, Paper, 'An account of a doubler of electricity' by Abraham Bennet, 1787, L&P/9/46, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_9_46/paper-an-account-of-a-doubler-of-electricity-by-abraham-bennet, accessed on 06 October 2026
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XXVII. An account of a doubler of electricity, or a machine by which the least conceivable quantity of positive or negative electricity may be continually doubled, till it becomes perceptible by common electrometers, or visible in sparks External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1787
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1787.0027
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Decade 9 of scientific letters and papers submitted for publication by the Royal Society
1786-1792 Reference number: L&P/9
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