Paper, 'An account of experiments made with the view of ascertaining the possibility of obtaining a spark before the circuit of the voltaic battery is completed' by John P [Peter] Gassiot
Reference number: PT/23/4
Date: 26 August 1839
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Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of experiments made with the view of ascertaining the possibility of obtaining a spark before the circuit of the voltaic battery is completed'.
Communicated by John Wm [William] Lubbock. Received by the Royal Society on 17 October 1839. Read 19 December 1839.
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/23/4
- Earliest possible date
- 26 August 1839
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- 36 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Peter Gassiot, Paper, 'An account of experiments made with the view of ascertaining the possibility of obtaining a spark before the circuit of the voltaic battery is completed' by John P [Peter] Gassiot, 26 August 1839, PT/23/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_23_4/paper-an-account-of-experiments-made-with-the-view-of-ascertaining-the-possibility-of-obtaining-a-spark-before-the-circuit-of-the-voltaic-battery-is-completed-by-john-p-peter-gassiot, accessed on 23 January 2026
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1840
August 1839 - June 1840 Reference number: PT/23
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John Peter Gassiot
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