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RefNoHS/7/176
LevelItem
TitleDraft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Michael Faraday, dated at Slough
CreatorJohn Frederick William Herschel
Date21 July 1828
DescriptionDraft letter. Hears that the Board of Longitude is to be dissolved; it will therefore be necessary to seek a new source of income for the continuance of the Optical Glass experiments. Will be guided by Michael Faraday's wish whether to continue the experiments. Charles Anderson has showed him curious experiments with the fusion of Fluor with clay.
LanguageEnglish
Extent2pp
FormatManuscript
Place originSlough, Berkshire
Origin coordinates51.5082, -0.5954
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialHS/21/2
RelatedRecordHS/21/2
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel9423
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA8218Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher1791 - 1867
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