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Paper, 'Additional experiments and observations on the application of electrical combinations to the preservation of the copper sheathing of ships and to other purposes' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy

Reference number: PT/17/2

Date: 1824

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Subject: Physics / Industry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Additional experiments and observations on the application of electrical combinations to the preservation of the copper sheathing of ships, and to other purposes'.

Read 17 June 1824.

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/17/2
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1824
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11 pages
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Manuscript

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Humphry Davy

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Humphry Davy, Paper, 'Additional experiments and observations on the application of electrical combinations to the preservation of the copper sheathing of ships and to other purposes' by Sir H [Humphry] Davy, 1824, PT/17/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_17_2/paper-additional-experiments-and-observations-on-the-application-of-electrical-combinations-to-the-preservation-of-the-copper-sheathing-of-ships-and-to-other-purposes-by-sir-h-humphry-davy, accessed on 15 January 2025

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