Diagrams, battery connected to decomposing apparatus by [Golding Bird]
Reference number: PT/74/4/1
Date: 1837
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Plate 1, figures 1-3 showing a battery connected to a decomposing apparatus as well as details of modifications to the decomposing apparatus used in Bird's electrochemical experiments. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Below figures are captions identical to those in the published plate. Not signed. Watermarked 'S 1835'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Physics / Chemistry
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Observations on the electro-chemical influence of long-continued electric currents of low tension' by Golding Bird.
Received by the Royal Society on 30 January 1837. Read 2 February 1837.
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- PT/74/4/1
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- 1837
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- 1 page
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- Diagram
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1834-1840
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 127
1836-1837 Reference number: PT/74/4
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