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RefNoPT/55/1/24
LevelItem
TitlePlate, draft of figure 47 showing diagram of equipotential shift by [William Thomson]
Date[1856]
DescriptionEarly draft of figure 47, incorporated within text, showing a diagram illustrating the shift of the equipotential line in an iron square caused by magnetisation. For later draft see PT/55/1/5.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture.-On the electro-dynamic qualities of metals'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 29 February 1856.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagram on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0017
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0031
RelatedRecordPT/55/1/5
PT/55/1/5
PT/55/1
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
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