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Diagrams, components of volta-electrometer by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/74/1/1

Date: 1833

Description

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.

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PT/74/1/1
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1833
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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, 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 20 January 2026

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