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RefNoAP/55/7
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On a new relation between heat and electricity' by Frederick Guthrie
Date1873
DescriptionIt is found that the reaction between an electrified body and a neighbouring neutral one, whereby the electricity in the neutral body is inductively decomposed and attraction produced, undergoes a modification when the neutral body is considerably heated. Under many circumstances it is found that the electrified body is rapidly and completely discharged. The action of discharge is shown to depend mainly upon the following conditions: firstly, the temperature of the discharging body and its distance from the electrified one; secondly, the nature (positive or negative) of the latter’s electricity. A suggestion is made as to the existence of an electrical coercitive force, the presence of which together with its diminution by heat would explain many observations described by Guthrie in the paper.

Marked on front as 'Archives June 19/73'.

Subject: Physics

Received 10 January 1873. Read 13 February 1873.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 21 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a new relation between heat and electricity'.
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FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1872.0037
RelatedRecordRR/7/244
RR/7/245
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6408Guthrie; Frederick (1833 - 1886)1833 - 1886
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