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Paper, 'On the influence of temperature on the electric conducting power of metals' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen and M [Moritz] von Bose

Reference number: PT/64/1

Date: 1861

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48 manuscript pages and two plates showing apparatuses employed by Matthiessen and von Bose in their experiments.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the influence of temperature on the electric conducting power of metals'.

Received by the Royal Society on 5 December 1861. Read 16 January 1862.

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 11, 1862.

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PT/64/1
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1861
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Ink on paper
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50 pages
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Manuscript

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Augustus Matthiessen

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Augustus Matthiessen, Paper, 'On the influence of temperature on the electric conducting power of metals' by A [Augustus] Matthiessen and M [Moritz] von Bose, 1861, PT/64/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_64_1/paper-on-the-influence-of-temperature-on-the-electric-conducting-power-of-metals-by-a-augustus-matthiessen-and-m-moritz-von-bose, accessed on 05 December 2024

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