| RefNo | AP/28/24 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'The electric fluid' by W F [William Ford] Stevenson |
| Date | November 1845 |
| Description | Stevenson denies the existence of two electric fluids, and maintains that all the phenomena are explicable on the hypothesis of a single fluid, which when present in a conducting body renders it positive, and in a non-conducting body, negative. A body which is naturally a conductor, may, he asserts, be rendered otherwise, by changing its form.
Pencil marking on front reads 'Col [Edward] Sabine'.
Subject: Physics / Electricity
Received 11 November 1845.
An abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'The electric fluid'. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0092 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3728 | Stevenson; William Ford (- 1852) | - 1852 |