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
Description
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.
- Reference number
- PT/19/8i
- Earliest possible date
- 28 April 1831
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 18 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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February 1830 - July 1831 Reference number: PT/19
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