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Paper, 'On galvano-hysteresis. (Preliminary notice)' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson

Reference number: PP/17/32

Date: 1891

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Thompson writes: 'If a sufficiently strong electric current is passed through a coil of insulated soft iron wire for a short time, and the wire then disconnected, and if, after the lapse of any length of time, the wire is placed in the circuit of a galvanometer, and is then subjected to longitudinal magnetisation or to a succession of alternately directed longitudinal magnetisations, it is found to discharge an electric current through the galvanometer.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Electricity

Received 16 March 1891. Read 9 April 1891. Communicated by George Carey Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On galvano-hysteresis. (Preliminary notice.)'.

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PP/17/32
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1891
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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3 pages
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Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Paper, 'On galvano-hysteresis. (Preliminary notice)' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson, 1891, PP/17/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_17_32/paper-on-galvano-hysteresis-preliminary-notice-by-silvanus-p-phillips-thompson, accessed on 27 April 2025

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