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Paper, 'Further researches on the magnetic phaenomena produced by electricity, with some new experiments on the properties of electrified bodies in their relations to conducting powers and temperature' by Sir Humphry Davy

Reference number: PT/15/31

Date: 1821

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Farther researches on the magnetic phenomena produced by electricity; with some new experiments on the properties of electrified bodies in their relations to conducting powers and temperature'.

Read 3 July 1821.

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/15/31
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1821
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32 pages
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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Further researches on the magnetic phaenomena produced by electricity, with some new experiments on the properties of electrified bodies in their relations to conducting powers and temperature' by Sir Humphry Davy, 1821, PT/15/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_15_31/paper-further-researches-on-the-magnetic-phaenomena-produced-by-electricity-with-some-new-experiments-on-the-properties-of-electrified-bodies-in-their-relations-to-conducting-powers-and-temperature-by-sir-humphry-davy, accessed on 18 March 2025

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