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Paper, 'On the sensitiveness of the bridge method in its application to periodic electric currents' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]

Reference number: PP/17/14

Date: 1891

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Strutt writes: 'The most favourable conditions in the ordinary measurement of resistance have been investigated by Schwendler and by O Heaviside. It is here proposed to treat the problem more generally, so cover the application to conductors endowed with self-induction, or combined with condensers.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Electricity

Received 17 January 1891. Read 19 January 1891.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the sensitiveness of the bridge method in its application to periodic electric currents'.

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PP/17/14
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1891
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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37 pages
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John William Strutt, Paper, 'On the sensitiveness of the bridge method in its application to periodic electric currents' by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], 1891, PP/17/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_14/paper-on-the-sensitiveness-of-the-bridge-method-in-its-application-to-periodic-electric-currents-by-lord-rayleigh-john-william-strutt, accessed on 17 May 2025

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