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RefNoPT/67/2/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, apparatus for observing photographic effects of electric spectra of metals through gases by unknown artist
Date[1862]
DescriptionPlate showing figures 49-50 showing the apparatus used by Miller to observe the photographic effects of the electric spectra of various metals when sparks are transmitted through gases other than atmospheric air, including details of the metallic electrodes enclosed in stout glass tubes.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the photographic transparency of various bodies, and on the photographic effects of metallic and other spectra obtained by means of the electric spark'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 19 June 1862.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionBlue pencil diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1862.0031
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1862.0037
RelatedRecordRR/5/157
PT/67/2
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7299Miller; William Allen (1817 - 1870)1817 - 1870
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