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Paper, 'On the specific inductive capacities of certain electrical substances' by W [William] Snow Harris

Reference number: PT/26/9

Date: 01 May 1842

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the specific inductive capacities of certain electrical substances'.

Written by Harris in Plymouth. Received by the Royal Society on 21 May 1842. Read 9 June 1842.

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/26/9
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01 May 1842
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27 pages
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William Snow Harris

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William Snow Harris, Paper, 'On the specific inductive capacities of certain electrical substances' by W [William] Snow Harris, 01 May 1842, PT/26/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_26_9/paper-on-the-specific-inductive-capacities-of-certain-electrical-substances-by-w-william-snow-harris, accessed on 11 June 2026

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