Paper, 'On the photographic transparency of various bodies, and on the photographic effects of metallic and other spectra obtained by means of the electric spark' by W A [William Allen] Miller
Reference number: PT/67/2
Date: 1862
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61 manuscript pages and two plates showing Miller's experimental apparatus and spectra produced by sparks from metals.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the photographic transparency of various bodies, and on the photographic effects of metallic and other spectra obtained by means of the electric spark'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 19 June 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 12, 1863.
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- PT/67/2
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- 1862
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 63 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Allen Miller, Paper, 'On the photographic transparency of various bodies, and on the photographic effects of metallic and other spectra obtained by means of the electric spark' by W A [William Allen] Miller, 1862, PT/67/2, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_67_2/paper-on-the-photographic-transparency-of-various-bodies-and-on-the-photographic-effects-of-metallic-and-other-spectra-obtained-by-means-of-the-electric-spark-by-w-a-william-allen-miller, accessed on 14 December 2025
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