Record

RefNoMS/257/4/194
AltRefNoSa.1333
Previous numbersES4/13/1333
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Charles William Siemens, 3 St George Street to Edward Sabine
Date1 December 1868
DescriptionSiemens wishes to correct a point in Sabine’s address to The Royal Society before it is printed concerning himself. In Sabine’s acknowledgment of Sir [Charles] Wheatstone’s contribution to science, Sabine refers to the ‘self-accumulative electromagnet’, which Siemens notes he described in a paper ten days before and refers to an idea he had with his brother in December 1866.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6256Siemens; Sir; Charles William (1823 - 1883)1823 - 1883
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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