| RefNo | AP/21/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On an improved mode of constructing magnets' by James Cunningham |
| Date | 10 June 1837 |
| Description | Cunningham, of the Cork Scientific and Literary Society, writes of the need to find a cheap method of making permanent magnets for the construction of magneto-electric machines. He suggests that 'common blister steel' [wrought iron, bar-iron] is well-suited to this purpose.
Subject: Magnetism
Received 14 June 1837. Read 15 June 1837. Communicated by North Ludlow Beamish.
Written by Cunningham in Cork [Ireland].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On an improved mode of constructing magnets'. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0303 |
| RelatedRecord | MC/2/256 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA658 | Beamish; North Ludlow (1797 - 1872) | 1797 - 1872 |