| RefNo | AP/15/25 | 
| Level | Item | 
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the law which connects the various magneto-electric phenomena lately discovered by Dr [Michael] Faraday' by William Ritchie | 
| Date | [1832] | 
| Description | Ritchie describes experiments designed to the prove the law of equal and opposite reaction in relation to electromagnetism, whereby a current of voltaic electricity can induce magnetism, and likewise magnets can induce voltaic currents.
  John George Children's initials appear below the date received. Minor annotations appear throughout in graphite.
  Subject: Physics
  Received by the Royal Society on 12 December 1832. Read 13 December 1832. Ordered not to be printed 14 [February?] 1833.
  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 the Law which connects the various Magneto-electric Phenomena lately discovered by Dr. Faraday'. | 
| Extent | 11p | 
| Format | Manuscript | 
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper | 
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making | 
| AccessStatus | Open | 
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0087 | 
| RelatedRecord | RR/1/206 | 
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates | 
| NA5611 | Ritchie; William (c 1790 - 1837) | c 1790 - 1837 | 
| NA8218 | Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher, scientific adviser, and Sandemanian | 1791 - 1867 |