Number of Images: 3; Color: Color; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
Type:
Document
Paper
Date:
December 17, 1834
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
The accompanying PDF contains SIA2012-0922, SIA2012-0923, SIA2012-0924, SIA2012-0925, SIA2012-0926, SIA2012-0927, SIA2012-0928, and SIA2012-0929, which are pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 2, pages 297-304.
Summary:
Letter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Alexander Dallas Bache, a physicist and later Smithsonian Institution Regent, December 17, 1834. In the letter, Henry sends a paper that describes his experiment in which he used a galvanic battery to produce sparks from an electrical circuit. Henry compares his work to that of Michael Faraday, an English physicist.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7053, Box 3, Folder: 3 - Incoming Correspondence 1821-1866 (1833-1834)
Reingold, Nathan, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 2, The Princeton Years: November 1832-December 1835 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1975), 297-304
