RefNo | AP/8A/8 |
Level | File |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'An explanation of several electrical phenomena' by T [Thomas] Exley |
Date | [1813] |
Description | Exley attempts to improve on Benjamin Franklin's theories relating to electricity. Exley believes that the phenomena of electricity depend on electrical fluid, which is compressible and elastic; that all bodies acquire some amount of electrical fluid; that electrics are more strongly attracted to electrical fluid than non-electrics; and that if bodies emit electrical fluid they are considered electrified positively whilst if they are receiving the fluid, they are electrified negatively. Minor annotations appear in graphite. Includes one page of illustrations.
Subject: Physics
Communicated by the President [Sir Joseph Banks]. Read to the Royal Society on 17 June 1813. |
Extent | 30p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | AP/8A/8/1 |
AP/8A/8/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
NA7974 | Franklin; Benjamin (1706 - 1790) | 1706 - 1790 |