Paper, 'Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light' by [Michael Faraday]
Reference number: PT/57/2
Date: 22 November 1856

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Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian Lecture. —Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light'.
Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 15 November 1856. Read 5 February 1857.
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.
- Reference number
- PT/57/2
- Earliest possible date
- 22 November 1856
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 81 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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