| RefNo | MS/603/11/40 |
| Previous numbers | 1985 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Fred T [Frederick Thomas] Trouton, Caerleon, Killiney, Co Dublin, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Trouton; Frederick Thomas (1863-1922); Irish experimental physicist |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 14 July 1901 |
| Description | Trouton has written to the B.A. [British Association] and he will see to the printing of reports. He has no separate reports, but these will do at the printing office. He looked at the B.A. Reports with Mrs [George Francis] Fitzgerald and found a number of short papers not included in the list Larmor sent to Mrs. Fitzgerald, and perhaps he thought them too brief. After Fitzgerald came back from last year's British Association, he asked Trouton to carry out some experiments which he may have discussed with Larmor, relating to a magnetic field effect. He describes the charging and discharging of a suspended condenser and notes that he had been making the experiments all last Autumn, but had only just finished them before Fitzgerald's death and he never knew the results. The calculated effect was many times greater than Trouton's apparatus could easily detect. He has not published these widely and wonders if it would merit a short note. In a postscript, Trouton notes an idea Fitzgerald had the last time he saw him. |
| Extent | 4p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA1534 | Trouton; Frederick Thomas (1863 - 1922) | 1863 - 1922 |