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Paper, 'On photographic self registering meteorological and magnetical instruments' by Francis Ronalds

Reference number: PT/32/8

Date: 1846

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19 manuscript pages and two plates showing electrographs, thermometrographs, barometrographs, and a declination magnetograph.

Subject: Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On photographic self-registering meteorological and magnetical instruments'.

Communicated by S [Samuel] Hunter Christie. Received by the Royal Society on 18 November 1846. Read 21 January 1847.

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/32/8
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1846
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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Francis Ronalds

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Francis Ronalds, Paper, 'On photographic self registering meteorological and magnetical instruments' by Francis Ronalds, 1846, PT/32/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_32_8/paper-on-photographic-self-registering-meteorological-and-magnetical-instruments-by-francis-ronalds, accessed on 10 November 2025

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