Record

RefNoPT/67/6/5
LevelItem
TitlePlate, paper band and roller transmission apparatus and diagram of signals received by unknown artist
Date[1862]
DescriptionFigures 8-10 showing details of an apparatus composed of a paper band, a roller, bent wires, and a metal plate used in Jenkin's experiments on transmitting electric signals through cables, as well as a diagram of the signals received during a test.

Subject: Physics / Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches on the transmission of electric signals through submarine cables.─Part I. Laws of transmission through various lengths of one cable'.

Communicated by C [Charles] Wheatstone. Received by the Royal Society on 20 May 1862. Read 19 June 1862.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1862.0043
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1862.0041
RelatedRecordRR/5/126
RR/5/127
PT/67/6
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7979Jenkin; Henry Charles Fleeming (1833 - 1885); engineer and electrician1833 - 1885
NA7559Wheatstone; Sir; Charles (1802 - 1875); physicist1802 - 1875
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