| RefNo | AP/45/6 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Further enquiries concerning, the laws, and the operation of electrical force' by William Snow Harris |
| Date | 1864 |
| Description | Harris endeavours to definitely express what is meant by quantity of electricity, electrical charge, and intensity. By quantity of electricity he understands the actual amount of the unknown agency constituting electrical force, as represented by some arbitrary quantitative ‘electrical’ measure. By electrical charge he under stands the quantity which can be sustained upon a given surface under given electrometer indication. Electrical intensity, on the contrary, is ‘the electrometer indication’ answering to a given quantity upon a give surface.
Includes three pages of figures of experimental apparatus.
Subject: Physics / Electricity
Received 8 June 1864. Read 16 June 1864.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 13 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Further inquiries concerning the laws and operation of electrical force'. |
| Extent | 84p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1863.0081 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/5/99 |
| RR/5/100 |
| RR/5/101 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8346 | Harris; Sir; William Snow (1791 - 1867) | 1791 - 1867 |