| RefNo | PT/55/1/32 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, figures 31-33 and 36 showing sheet iron and an apparatus for testing the direction of electric current by [William Thomson] |
| Date | [1856] |
| Description | Figures 31-33 and 36 showing an L-shaped piece of sheet iron, an apparatus for testing the direction of the effect of thermoelectric qualities, a magnetised conductor, and a diagram of the direction of electric current through the sheet iron. An earlier draft of figure 33 is found at PT/55/1/22.
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/55/1/5 |
| PT/55/1/5 |
| PT/55/1/10 |
| PT/55/1/6 |
| PT/55/1/3 |
| PT/55/1/22 |
| PT/55/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |