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Paper, 'On a new method of generating electricity' by J A Kendall

Reference number: PP/4/20

Date: 1883

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Kendall writes: 'In 1863 Deville and Troost announced their discovery that certain metals were permeable by hydrogen at a red heat. This discovery, as is well known, was verified by Graham, who made extended researches on the subject. A bout three years ago it occurred to the author that a red-hot platinum plate, through which hydrogen was passing, might be made to serve as an element of a galvanic combination, and early in 1881 some experiments were tried with this object.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Electricity

Received 30 December 1883. Read 28 December 1883. Communicated by George Gabriel Stokes.

A version of this paper was published in volume 36 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a new method of generating electricity'.

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PP/4/20
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1883
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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14 pages
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Manuscript

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J A Kendall

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J A Kendall, Paper, 'On a new method of generating electricity' by J A Kendall, 1883, PP/4/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_4_20/paper-on-a-new-method-of-generating-electricity-by-j-a-kendall, accessed on 13 October 2024

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