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Appendix, regarding 'On a new electrical storage battery' by Henry Sutton

Reference number: PP/1/20

Date: 1881-1882

Description

Sutton presents an appendix to his paper 'On a new electrical storage battery' (see PP/1/14) consisting of a description of his cell.

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes a diagram of Sutton's cell and a printed page of a Royal Society Balloting List for 1 December 1879.

Subject: Electricity

Received 3 January 1882. Read 12 January 1882. Communicated by the President [William Spottiswoode].

A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a new electrical storage battery. (Supplementary note.)'.

Reference number
PP/1/20
Earliest possible date
1881-1882
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper (page torn)
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript
Diagram
Printed

Creator name

Henry Sutton

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Henry Sutton, Appendix, regarding 'On a new electrical storage battery' by Henry Sutton, 1881-1882, PP/1/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_1_20/appendix-regarding-on-a-new-electrical-storage-battery-by-henry-sutton, accessed on 13 June 2026

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