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Paper, 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables' by [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkin

Reference number: PT/67/6

Date: 1862

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66 manuscript pages and five plates showing transmission apparatuses used in Jenkin's experiments and graphs of his experimental results.

Subject: Physics / Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables.─Part I. Laws of transmission through various lengths of one cable'.

Communicated by C [Charles] Wheatstone. Received by the Royal Society on 20 May 1862. Read 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/67/6
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1862
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Ink on paper
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71 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin

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Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, Paper, 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables' by [Henry Charles] Fleeming Jenkin, 1862, PT/67/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_67_6/paper-experimental-researches-on-the-transmission-of-electric-signals-through-submarine-cables-by-henry-charles-fleeming-jenkin, accessed on 14 May 2025

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    Dates: 1802 - 1865

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