Record

RefNoMS/962/1/11
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Lord Blythswood, Ballathie, Stanley, to [Thomas] Preston
CreatorCampbell [formerly Douglas]; Archibald Campbell; first Baron Blythswood (1835-1908); British politician and physicist
RecipientPreston; Thomas (1860-1900); Irish physicist
Date8 October 1899
DescriptionHe encloses a letter from [Edgar Walford] Marchant. He is beginning experiments and Blythswood cannot conceive of anything to answer 'whatever it is', 'vibrations in a field...without its having an effect on its path'. He describes the effect of glass plates placed between points of a machine 'the sparks have to pass all over it...' He was sorry to hear that Preston was still ill.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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