RefNo | MC/2/182 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Charles Wheatstone, 20 Conduit Street, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, [Secretary of the Royal Society] |
Date | 16 July 1835 |
Description | Offering further details to proposed experiments respecting 'the velocity of electricity and the duration of electric light'. Wheatstone goes into detail of the length of conducting wire needed and necessary safety precautions and references encouragement from Sir John [Frederick William] Herschel.
[Referred to sub-committee by Council on 16 July 1835.] |
Extent | 4p |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | CMP/1/47 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7559 | Wheatstone; Sir; Charles (1802 - 1875); physicist | 1802 - 1875 |
NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |