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RefNoAP/37/23
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity' by William Thomson
Date19 April 1854
DescriptionThomson writes on the thermal effects of electric currents in unequally heated conductors, and suggests that an electric current must exercise a convective effect on heat in a homogeneous metallic conductor of which different parts are kept at different temperatures.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Physics

Received 20 April 1854. Read May 1854.

Written by Thomson at Glasgow College [Scotland].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Account of researches in thermo-electricity'.
Extent14p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0016
RelatedRecordMC/5/161
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
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