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Paper, 'On electrical and magnetic rotations' by C [Charles] Babbage

Reference number: PT/18/16

Date: 29 May 1826

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Subject: Physics

Published in volume 116 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On electrical and magnetic rotations'.

Read 15 June 1826.

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/18/16
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29 May 1826
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Ink on paper
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32 pages
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Charles Babbage

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Charles Babbage, Paper, 'On electrical and magnetic rotations' by C [Charles] Babbage, 29 May 1826, PT/18/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_18_16/paper-on-electrical-and-magnetic-rotations-by-c-charles-babbage, accessed on 17 February 2026

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