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10 manuscript pages including one figure showing the machine used in Faraday's experiments.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture.- Experimental researches in electricity.— Twenty-fourth series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 1 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/40/4
Earliest possible date
19 July 1850
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Ink on paper
Page extent
10 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Paper, 'Experimental researches in electricity. Twenty-fourth series' by Michael Faraday, 19 July 1850, PT/40/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_40_4/paper-experimental-researches-in-electricity-twenty-fourth-series-by-michael-faraday, accessed on 07 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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