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Paper, 'Experimental researches on electricity - second series' by M [Michael] Faraday

Reference number: PT/20/5

Date: 21 December 1831

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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/15/4-5.

Subject: Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture. - Experimental researches in electricity. - Second series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Read 12 January 1832.

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/20/5
Earliest possible date
21 December 1831
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75 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Experimental researches on electricity - second series' by M [Michael] Faraday, 21 December 1831, PT/20/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_20_5/paper-experimental-researches-on-electricity-second-series-by-m-michael-faraday, accessed on 11 August 2026

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