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Reference numberPT/74/7/1
LevelItem
TitleDiagrams, instruments used in experiments on power source of voltaic pile by [Michael Faraday?]
Date[1840]
DescriptionPlate 3, figures 1-18 showing scientific instruments, metal bars and plates, and their arrangement for experiments by Faraday on the power source in a voltaic pile. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Watermark shows a woman inscribed in an oval, a shield bearing St George's cross by her side.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Experimental researches in electricity.—Sixteenth series' by Michael Faraday.

Received by the Royal Society on 23 January 1840. Read 6 February 1840.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
Physical descriptionInk on paper
Dimensions325x203mm
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1840.0003
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0098
Related records in the cataloguePT/23/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8218Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher, scientific adviser, and Sandemanian1791 - 1867
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