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Diagrams, apparatuses used in experiments on magnetic electricity by [Michael Faraday?]

Reference number: PT/73/15/4

Date: 01 December 1831

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Plate 4, figures 30-32 and a struck-out draft, possibly of figure 34. Figures 30-32 show various instruments and apparatuses used by Faraday in his experiments on electricity derived from magnetism. Inscribed with publication and plate details. An ink inscription across the top reads 'Faraday. Experimental researches in Electricity, Dec. 1831 & Jan 1832'. Not signed.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'The Bakerian lecture. - Experimental researches in electricity. - Second series' by Michael Faraday.

Read to the Royal Society on 12 January 1832.

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PT/73/15/4
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01 December 1831
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Ink on paper
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1 page
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Diagram

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Diagrams, apparatuses used in experiments on magnetic electricity by [Michael Faraday?], 01 December 1831, PT/73/15/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_15_4/diagrams-apparatuses-used-in-experiments-on-magnetic-electricity-by-michael-faraday, accessed on 19 July 2026

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