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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some experiments with a large voltaic battery'.

Read 15 June 1815.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.

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PT/9/20
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1815
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Ink on paper
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21 pages
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Manuscript

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John George Children

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John George Children, Paper, 'An account of some experiments with a large voltaic battery' by J G [John George] Children, 1815, PT/9/20, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_9_20/paper-an-account-of-some-experiments-with-a-large-voltaic-battery-by-j-g-john-george-children, accessed on 09 December 2025

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