| RefNo | AP/37/23 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity' by William Thomson |
| Date | 19 April 1854 |
| Description | Thomson writes on the thermal effects of electric currents in unequally heated conductors, and suggests that an electric current must exercise a convective effect on heat in a homogeneous metallic conductor of which different parts are kept at different temperatures.
Annotations in ink throughout.
Subject: Physics
Received 20 April 1854. Read May 1854.
Written by Thomson at Glasgow College [Scotland].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity'. |
| Extent | 14p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0016 |
| RelatedRecord | MC/5/161 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |