RefNo | PP/12/12/1 |
Previous numbers | PP/44/13 |
Level | File |
Title | Manuscript, 'On the effect of occluded gases on the thermo-electric properties of bodies, and on their resistances; also on the thermo-electric and other properties of graphite and carbon' by James Monckman |
Creator | Monckman; James (1842-1905); British scientist; teacher |
Date | 1888 |
Description | Monckman writes: 'Le Roux has shown that when a notch is filed into a wire and one side heated there is in general a thermo-electric current. He also found that when two wires of the same metal, with flat ends, are pressed together, so that one forms a continuation of the other, and the wire on one side of the junction is heated, no current is obtained, hut he observed a current in all cases where there was dyssymmetry.' In the process of repeating these experiments, Monckman was 'led to commence a research on the effect of occluded gas by [a] curious phenemenon.'
Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes four pages of diagrams of experimental apparatus and results.
Subject: Physics / Electricity
Received 1 May 1888 / 19 May 1888. Read 31 May 1888. Communicated by Joseph John Thomson.
A version of this paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the effect of occluded gases on the thermo-electric properties of bodies, and on their resistances; also on the thermo-electric and other properties of graphite and carbon'. |
Extent | 17p |
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.1888.0027 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8288 | Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist | 1856 - 1940 |