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Paper, 'On the magnetic phenomena produced by electricity' in a letter from Sir H [Humphry] Davy to W H [William Hyde] Wollaston

Reference number: PT/15/2

Date: 12 November 1820

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the magnetic phenomena produced by electricity; in a letter from Sir H. Davy, Bart. F. R. S. to W. H. Wollaston, M. D. P. R. S'.

Written by Davy at 23 Lower Grosvenor Street, London. Read 16 November 1820.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/15/2
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12 November 1820
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12 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'On the magnetic phenomena produced by electricity' in a letter from Sir H [Humphry] Davy to W H [William Hyde] Wollaston, 12 November 1820, PT/15/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_2/paper-on-the-magnetic-phenomena-produced-by-electricity-in-a-letter-from-sir-h-humphry-davy-to-w-h-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 09 February 2026

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