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Diagrams, instruments used in experiments on power source of voltaic pile by [Michael Faraday?]

Reference number: PT/74/7/1

Date: 1840

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Plate 3, figures 1-18 showing scientific instruments, metal bars and plates, and their arrangement for experiments by Faraday on the power source in a voltaic pile. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Watermark shows a woman inscribed in an oval, a shield bearing St George's cross by her side.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Experimental researches in electricity.—Sixteenth series' by Michael Faraday.

Received by the Royal Society on 23 January 1840. Read 6 February 1840.

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PT/74/7/1
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1840
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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 power source of voltaic pile by [Michael Faraday?], 1840, PT/74/7/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_74_7_1/diagrams-instruments-used-in-experiments-on-power-source-of-voltaic-pile-by-michael-faraday, accessed on 23 June 2025

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