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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/74/7/1.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches in electricity.—Sixteenth series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 23 January 1840. Read 6 and 13 February 1840.

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.

Reference number
PT/23/2
Earliest possible date
29 December 1839
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Ink on paper
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191 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity series XVI' by M [Michael] Faraday, 29 December 1839, PT/23/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_23_2/paper-experimental-researches-in-electricity-series-xvi-by-m-michael-faraday, accessed on 24 January 2026

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