| RefNo | AP/28/22 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'A suggestion intended to confirm Franklin's theory of electrostatics by explaining the phenomenon of repulsion between bodies negatively electric' by James A Smith |
| Creator | Smith; James A (fl 1845) |
| Date | June 1845 |
| Description | Smith suggests that in negatively electrified bodies the redundant matter must have a tendency to escape, thus the equilibrium of its cohesion is destroyed, and two bodies in such a condition must mutually repel each other.
Subject: Physics / Electricity
Received 19 June 1845 / 30 January 1846. Communicated by Samuel Hunter Christie.
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 'Suggestion intended to confirm Franklin's Theory of Electrostatics by explaining the phenomenon of Repulsion between bodies negatively electric'. |
| Extent | 12p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0101 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8168 | Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician | 1784 - 1865 |