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Paper, 'On the power of masses of iron to controul [sic] the attractive force of a magnet' by W [William] Snow Harris

Reference number: PT/19/8i

Date: 28 April 1831

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18 manuscript pages including five illustrations showing the placement of iron masses in relation to Harris' apparatus.

Subject: Magnetism / Physics

Published in volume 121 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On the power of masses of Iron to controul the attractive force of a magnet'.

Read 16 June 1831.

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 3, 1837.

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PT/19/8i
Earliest possible date
28 April 1831
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Ink on paper
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18 pages
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Manuscript

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William Snow Harris

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William Snow Harris, Paper, 'On the power of masses of iron to controul [sic] the attractive force of a magnet' by W [William] Snow Harris, 28 April 1831, PT/19/8i, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_19_8i/paper-on-the-power-of-masses-of-iron-to-controul-sic-the-attractive-force-of-a-magnet-by-w-william-snow-harris, accessed on 14 February 2026

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