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Paper, 'A description of an extensive series of the water battery; with an account of some experiments made in order to test the relation of electrical and chemical action which takes place before and after completion of the voltaic circuit' by John P [Peter] Gassiot

Reference number: PT/28/2

Date: 1843

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47 manuscript pages and one plate showing batteries and electroscopes.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A description of an extensive series of the water battery; with an account of some experiments made in order to test the relation of the electrical and the chemical actions which take place before and after completion of the voltaic circuit'.

Received by the Royal Society on 7 December 1843. Read 25 January, 1 February, and 8 February 1844.

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 5, 1851.

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PT/28/2
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1843
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48 pages
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John Peter Gassiot

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John Peter Gassiot, Paper, 'A description of an extensive series of the water battery; with an account of some experiments made in order to test the relation of electrical and chemical action which takes place before and after completion of the voltaic circuit' by John P [Peter] Gassiot, 1843, PT/28/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_28_2/paper-a-description-of-an-extensive-series-of-the-water-battery-with-an-account-of-some-experiments-made-in-order-to-test-the-relation-of-electrical-and-chemical-action-which-takes-place-before-and-after-completion-of-the-voltaic-circuit-by-john-p-peter-gassiot, accessed on 10 November 2025

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