Record

RefNoACS/1/1/98
AltRefNo53654
LevelItem
TitleLetter from William Crookes, Imperial Hotel, Exmouth, to Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
CreatorCrookes; William (1832-1919); British chemist
Date6 April 1907
DescriptionInforms he will be staying in Exmouth for a while and confirms receipt of Swinton's letter and paper. He will send it to the Royal Society as it contains many interesting observations and one which he believes is quite new. Asks if it may be that the positive atoms, being so large, stick on the aluminium anticathode while the small negative electrons pass through and give up their chrage to the Faraday Cylinder.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialhttps://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_207/referees-report-by-william-crookes-on-a-paper-the-conversion-of-diamond-into-coke-in-high-vacuum-by-cathode-rays-by-charles-algernon-parsons-and-alan-archibald-campbell-swinton
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1908.0015
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8188Crookes; Sir; William (1832 - 1919); chemist and science journalist1832 - 1919
NA8285Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer1863 - 1930
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