| RefNo | PT/55/1/19 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, figures 39-40 showing apparatus for testing relative effects of tension on electric conductivity by [William Thomson] |
| Date | [1856] |
| Description | Figures 39-40 showing an apparatus used by Thomson for testing the relative effects of tension on electric conductivity of iron and copper wires, and a detail of a part of the apparatus consisting of a stout copper slip.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture.-On the electro-dynamic qualities of metals'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 29 February 1856. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink diagrams on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0017 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0031 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/55/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; Lord; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |