RefNo | AP/8A/8/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'An explanation of several electrical phenomena' by T [Thomas] Exley |
Date | [1813] |
Description | Exley attempts to improve on Benjamin Franklin's theories relating to electricity. Exley believes that the phenomena of electricity depend on electrical fluid, which is compressible and elastic; that all bodies acquire some amount of electrical fluid; that electrics are more strongly attracted to electrical fluid than non-electrics; and that if bodies emit electrical fluid they are considered electrified positively whilst if they are receiving the fluid, they are electrified negatively. Minor annotations appear in graphite.
Subject: Physics
Communicated by the President [Sir Joseph Banks]. Read to the Royal Society on 17 June 1813. |
Extent | 29p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | AP/8A/8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |
NA7974 | Franklin; Benjamin (1706 - 1790) | 1706 - 1790 |