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Paper, 'On the heating effects of electric currents. No. III' by W H [William Henry] Preece

Reference number: PP/12/3

Date: 1888

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Preece writes: 'I have taken a great deal of pains to verify the dimensions of the currents, as detailed in my paper read on December 22,1887 [see PP/11/14], required to fuse different wires of such thicknesses that the law C = ad3/2 is strictly followed; and I submit the following as the final values of the constant “a” for the different metals'.

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Electricity

Received 15 March 1888. Read 19 April 1888.

A version of this paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the heating effects of electric currents. No. III'.

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PP/12/3
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1888
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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4 pages
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William Henry Preece

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William Henry Preece, Paper, 'On the heating effects of electric currents. No. III' by W H [William Henry] Preece, 1888, PP/12/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_12_3/paper-on-the-heating-effects-of-electric-currents-no-iii-by-w-h-william-henry-preece, accessed on 17 January 2025

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