Paper, 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply' by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold
Reference number: PP/24/20
Date: 1894
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The authors write: 'On the 8th January, 1894, an accident occurred at Bournemouth of an unusual nature. An omnibus was in the act of drawing up in the roadway outside the Imperial Hotel, when the horses suddenly fell down, and one of them died in a few minutes.'
Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two pages of diagrams of experimental apparatus and results.
Subject: Physics / Electricity
Received and read 21 June 1894. Communicated by Lord Kelvin [John William Strutt].
A version of this paper was published in volume 56 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply'.
- Reference number
- PP/24/20
- Earliest possible date
- 1894
- Physical description
- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 14 pages
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- Manuscript
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Ralph Alger Bagnold, Philip Cardew, Paper, 'On the difference of potential that may be established at the surface of the ground immediately above and at various distances from a buried mass of metal charge from a high pressure electric light supply' by Philip Cardew and Ralph Bagnold, 1894, PP/24/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_24_20/paper-on-the-difference-of-potential-that-may-be-established-at-the-surface-of-the-ground-immediately-above-and-at-various-distances-from-a-buried-mass-of-metal-charge-from-a-high-pressure-electric-light-supply-by-philip-cardew-and-ralph-bagnold, accessed on 06 December 2025
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 56, 1894
1894 Reference number: PP/24
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Dates: 1882 - 1894
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