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Diagrams, vacuum tube, carbonic acid generator, and glass vessels by [John Peter Gassiot?]

Reference number: PT/75/8/3

Date: 1858

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Plate 9, figures 8, 10, and 12-13 (labelled here as 8, 11, and 13-14) showing a vacuum tube, carbonic acid generator, and glass vessels used in Gassiot's experiments on electrical discharges. Inscribed recto and verso with publication and plate details. Graphite inscription verso reads 'Mr Basire'. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the stratifications in electrical discharges, as observed in torricellian and other vacua. —Second communication' by John Peter Gassiot.

Received by the Royal Society on 9 December 1858. Read 13 January 1859.

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PT/75/8/3
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1858
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Graphite on paper
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2 pages
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Diagram

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John Peter Gassiot

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John Peter Gassiot, Diagrams, vacuum tube, carbonic acid generator, and glass vessels by [John Peter Gassiot?], 1858, PT/75/8/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_3/diagrams-vacuum-tube-carbonic-acid-generator-and-glass-vessels-by-john-peter-gassiot, accessed on 18 April 2026

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