| RefNo | ACS/1/1/103 |
| AltRefNo | 56962 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from William Crookes, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, London, W., to [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton |
| Creator | Crookes; William (1832-1919); British chemist |
| Date | 2 October 1908 |
| Description | He has read Swinton's paper with much interest, opining that all objection brought against the former paper have been addressed. Draws attention to an experiment featured on page 5 and states the following: 'it struck me you might add to the interest if instead of Willemite you were to put a strip of microscopic glass behind the patchwork screen of aluminium, and then see how the glass behaved on heating. In an old experiment of mine I exposed a piece of glass in the focus of the cathode stream, and it gradually got hot and then melted and boiled up with much evolution of gas. By dividing this experiment into two parts you might catch the gas evolved on boiling in a constricted tube and see if it varied with the kind of gas originally in the tube'. Willing to present Swinton's paper to the Royal Society. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Typescript |
| PhysicalDescription | Carbon |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8188 | Crookes; Sir; William (1832 - 1919); chemist and science journalist | 1832 - 1919 |
| NA8285 | Swinton; Alan Archibald Campbell (1863 - 1930); electrical engineer | 1863 - 1930 |