RefNo | CLP/18i/94 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'An account of some experiments touching the electricity and light produced on the attrition of several bodies' by Francis Hauksbee |
Date | [1705] |
Description | Hauksbee writes: 'According to the commands of the Society, I have made the following experiments. I caus´d a piece of wood to be turn´d into the form of a short cylinder, it being about four inches diameter, and three in length. This being fixt on an axis, I melted in a ladle about a pound and half of the best sealing-wax I could procure, and when it was fluid. I plung´d the wooden cylinder into it, where I kept it moving round till it had go a coat of it about half an inch thick on its surface.'
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of some experiments, touching the electricity and light producible on the attrition of several bodies'. |
Language | English |
Extent | 2p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1708.0014 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8345 | Hauksbee; Francis (c 1660 - 1713) | c 1660 - 1713 |