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Diagrams, apparatuses of metal plates by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/74/1/29

Date: 1834

Description

Plate 18, figures 11 and 25-31 showing metal plates connected to a volta-electrometer and various other apparatuses consisting of connected metal plates. 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/74/1/29
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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, apparatuses of metal plates by unknown artist, 1834, PT/74/1/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_1_29/diagrams-apparatuses-of-metal-plates-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 08 December 2024

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