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Diagrams, voltaic combinations by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/74/4/5

Date: 1837

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Plate 8, figures 1-10 showing the arrangement of various voltaic combinations studied by Daniell, comprising steam vessels, connected wires, battery cells, electrodes, and galvanometers. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Chemistry / Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Further observations on voltaic combinations. In a letter addressed to Michael Faraday, Esq. D. C. L. F. R. S., Fullerian Prof. Chem. Royal Institution, Corr. Memb. Royal & Imp. Acadd. of Sciences, Paris Petersburgh, &c' by John Frederic Daniell.

Received by the Royal Society on 30 March 1837. Read 6 April 1837.

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PT/74/4/5
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1837
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Ink on paper
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1 page
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Diagram

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John Frederic Daniell

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John Frederic Daniell, Diagrams, voltaic combinations by unknown artist, 1837, PT/74/4/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_4_5/diagrams-voltaic-combinations-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 05 October 2024

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