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Paper, 'Experimental researches in voltaic electricity and electro-magnetism' by Rev William Ritchie

Reference number: PT/20/7

Date: 1832

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59 manuscript pages including ten figures.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches in voltaic electricity and electro-magnetism'.

Read 19 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/20/7
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1832
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Ink on paper
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59 pages
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Manuscript

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William Ritchie

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William Ritchie, Paper, 'Experimental researches in voltaic electricity and electro-magnetism' by Rev William Ritchie, 1832, PT/20/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_20_7/paper-experimental-researches-in-voltaic-electricity-and-electro-magnetism-by-rev-william-ritchie, accessed on 16 May 2026

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