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

Reference number: PT/40/2

Date: 02 August 1850

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39 manuscript pages and eight plates showing various instruments and apparatuses used in Faraday's experiments.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches in electricity. ─Twenty-fifth series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 15 August 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/40/2
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02 August 1850
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Ink on paper
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47 pages
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Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity. Twenty fifth series' by M [Michael] Faraday, 02 August 1850, PT/40/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_40_2/paper-experimental-researches-in-electricity-twenty-fifth-series-by-m-michael-faraday, accessed on 03 December 2024

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