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RefNoAP/20/15/1
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished manuscript, 'Du son et de l’electricité' [On sound and electricity] by J C Sellier
DateDecember 1835
DescriptionThe author presents observations from various sources on the subject of the relationship between electricity, the production of sound, the crystallization of bodies, the transmission of heat, the emission of light, and various atmospheric changes. Includes four figures within the text and one page of drawings of sculptures from the Louvre. Prefaced by a note from Michael Faraday reading 'The gold medals of the Royal Society for the year 1837 are to be awarded to the writer of the most important unpublished paper on physics'. Awarded Prize Essay for the Royal Society's Royal Medal for 1837.

Subject: Physics / Electricity

Received 16 March 1836. Read 16 June 1836.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Du Son et de l’Electricité. Anonymous, with the signature of Hermes. Being a prize essay for the Royal Medal'.
Extent47p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsNot available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making.
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0257
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