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RefNoPP/17/39
Previous numbersPP/49/43
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On the theory of electrodynamics' by Joseph Larmor
Date1891
DescriptionLarmor writes: 'The electrical ideas of Clerk Maxwell, which were cultivated partly in relation to mechanical models of electrodynamic action, led him to the general principle that electrical currents always flow round complete circuits. To verify this principle for the case of the current which charges a condenser, it was necessary to postulate an electrodynamic action of the same type as that of a current for the electric displacement across the dielectric, in which the excitation of the dielectric may he supposed, after Faraday, to consist.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Electricity

Received 30 April 1891. Read 14 May 1891. Communicated by Joseph John Thomson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the theory of electrodynamics'.
Extent34p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0123
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
NA8288Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist1856 - 1940
NA8259Maxwell; James Clerk (1831 - 1879); physicist1831 - 1879
NA8218Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher1791 - 1867
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