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Armstrong writes: 'It is now nearly half a century since I undertook to design, for the Polytechnic Institution then existing in London, a large hydro­electric machine, on the plan of the smaller one I had previously designed for myself. It was a very short time in my hands after its completion, and I had scarcely any opportunity of afterwards using it in the lecture room of the Institution.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes 24 figures of Armstrong's multiple induction machine and experimental observations.

Subject: Physics / Scientific apparatus and instruments

Received 18 May 1892. Read 16 June 1892.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a multiple induction machine for producing high tension electricity, and on some remarkable results obtained with it'.

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PP/20/16
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1892
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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43 pages
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William George Armstrong

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William George Armstrong, Paper, 'On a multiple induction machine for producing high tension electricity, and on some remarkable results obtained with it' by William George Armstrong, 1892, PP/20/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_16/paper-on-a-multiple-induction-machine-for-producing-high-tension-electricity-and-on-some-remarkable-results-obtained-with-it-by-william-george-armstrong, accessed on 09 February 2025

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