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Four manuscript pages and two plates showing various experiments surrounding inductive capacity.

Subject: Physics

Published in volume 128 of Philosophical Transactions as 'Supplementary note to experimental researches in electricity. — eleventh series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 29 March 1838.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/22/6
Earliest possible date
29 March 1838
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Ink on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Supplementary note to experimental researches in electricity' by Michael Faraday, 29 March 1838, PT/22/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_22_6/paper-supplementary-note-to-experimental-researches-in-electricity-by-michael-faraday, accessed on 25 March 2025

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