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Plate 1, figures 5-17 (labelled here as figures 1-13) showing components of Faraday's volta-electrometer, used to measure the chemical action of a certain amount of electricity. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Experimental researches in electricity.—Sixth series' by Michael Faraday.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 21 November 1833.

Reference number
PT/74/1/1
Earliest possible date
1833
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

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Michael Faraday

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Michael Faraday, Diagrams, components of volta-electrometer by unknown artist, 1833, PT/74/1/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_1_1/diagrams-components-of-volta-electrometer-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 07 December 2024

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