| Reference number | PP/10/17 |
| Previous numbers | PP/42/17 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the limiting distance of speech by telephone' by W H [William Henry] Preece |
| Date | 1887 |
| Description | Preece writes: 'The law that determines the distance to which speaking by telephone on land lines is possible, is just the same as that which determines the number of currents which can be transmitted through a submarine cable in a second. The experimental evidence upon which this law is based was carried out in 1853 by Mr Latimer Clark (whose assistant I then was). The experiments were made by me in the presence of Faraday; many were his own; he made them the subject of a Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution January 20, 1854, and they are published in his ‘Researches’ (vol. 3, p. 508).'
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.
Subject: Physics
Received 17 February 1887. Read 3 March 1887.
A version of this paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the limiting distance of speech by telephone'. |
| Extent | 17p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1887.0029 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8011 | Preece; Sir; William Henry (1834 - 1913) | 1834 - 1913 |
| NA6970 | Clark; Josiah Latimer (1822 - 1898) | 1822 - 1898 |
| NA8218 | Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher, scientific adviser, and Sandemanian | 1791 - 1867 |