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Paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity. Twenty seventh series' by M [Michael] Faraday

Reference number: PT/40/1

Date: 16 November 1850

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71 manuscript pages including two figures and one separate plate.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches in electricity.— Twenty-seventh series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 19 November 1850. Read 28 November 1850.

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/40/1
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16 November 1850
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Ink on paper
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72 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity. Twenty seventh series' by M [Michael] Faraday, 16 November 1850, PT/40/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_40_1/paper-experimental-researches-in-electricity-twenty-seventh-series-by-m-michael-faraday, accessed on 06 December 2024

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