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Paper, 'On the potential difference required to produce a spark between two parallel plates in air at different pressures' by J B Peace

Reference number: PP/20/9

Date: 1892

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Peace writes: 'The following is an account of an investigation into the relations between potential difference, spark-length, and pressure when discharge takes place between two parallel plates in air. The investigation was undertaken at the suggestion of Professor J J Thomson, and has been carried out in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes eight pages of diagrams of experimental apparatus and results.

Subject: Physics / Electricity

Received 24 May 1892. Read 16 June 1892. Communicated by Thomson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 52 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the potential difference required to produce a spark between two parallel plates in air at different pressures'.

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PP/20/9
Earliest possible date
1892
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
32 pages
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Manuscript
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Paper, 'On the potential difference required to produce a spark between two parallel plates in air at different pressures' by J B Peace, 1892, PP/20/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_20_9/paper-on-the-potential-difference-required-to-produce-a-spark-between-two-parallel-plates-in-air-at-different-pressures-by-j-b-peace, accessed on 14 October 2024

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