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Reference numberPT/40/4i/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, figures 11, 13, and 16 showing variation of magnetic needle at Hobarton and Toronto by Michael Faraday
Date[1850]
DescriptionPlate containing figures 11, 13, and 16 showing the variation of the magnetic needle throughout the day in Hobarton [Hobart, Tasmania, Australia] and Toronto [Canada] and a diagram of the times of passages of the declination variation. Also includes one unpublished figure showing a diagram of magnetic variation.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Experimental researches in electricity. ─Twenty-sixth series'.

Written by Faraday at the Royal Institution. Received by the Royal Society on 9 October 1850. Read 2 November 1850.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
Physical descriptionInk diagrams on paper
Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0269
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1851.0005
Related records in the cataloguePT/40/4i
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Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8218Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher, scientific adviser, and Sandemanian1791 - 1867
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