Paper, 'On the electrodynamic qualities of metals' by Prof W [William] Thomson
Reference number: PT/55/1
Date: 1856
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281 manuscript pages including seven figures and 29 separate plates.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture.-On the electro-dynamic qualities of metals'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 29 February 1856.
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 8, 1857.
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- 1856
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- 310 pages
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1856
February - June 1856 Reference number: PT/55
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