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Diagrams, instruments used in experiments on voltaic piles by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/74/1/28

Date: 1834

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Plate 18, figures 1-10 and 12-24 showing a series of instruments used in Faraday's experiments on voltaic piles and electrolysation. 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.-Eighth series' by Michael Faraday.

Received by the Royal Society on 7 April 1834. Read 5 June 1834.

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PT/74/1/28
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1834
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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, instruments used in experiments on voltaic piles by unknown artist, 1834, PT/74/1/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_1_28/diagrams-instruments-used-in-experiments-on-voltaic-piles-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 09 December 2024

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