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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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PT/55/1
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1856
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310 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Paper, 'On the electrodynamic qualities of metals' by Prof W [William] Thomson, 1856, PT/55/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_55_1/paper-on-the-electrodynamic-qualities-of-metals-by-prof-w-william-thomson, accessed on 18 May 2026

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