Charles-Gaspard De La Rive to Faraday   28 May 1825

Geneva 28 of May

Dear Sir!

I take the liberty to introduce to your acquaintance the bearer of this letter Col Fischer1 of Schaff[h]ouse[n], Member of the Helvetic Society and one of our most skilfull Steel and Iron manufacturers, he is the inventor of many processes and many methods new and ingenious for the fabrication and working of steel, which have been, many of them at least, published in the Bib. Univ.2 <-> He is going to London on the purpose to improve and make known his processes. He was of course desirous to be introduced to you and it is with the utmost pleasure that I do it3. Being at the same time very satisfied to take this opportunity to recall me to your remembrance and to thank you for all your kindnesses for my son.

I am dear sir | Yours for ever | G. De la Rive

1
Johann Conrad Fischer (1773-1854, P1).
2
See for example Fischer (1821).
3
See Fischer (1951), 209, 211, 213, 215, 225, 375, 395 for accounts of Fischer’s meetings with Faraday.

Bibliography

FISCHER, Johann Conrad (1821): “Notice de quelques Essais sur l'alliage de certains métaux avec l'acier fondu”, Bibl. Univ., 18: 73-8.

FISCHER, Johann Conrad (1951): Tagebücher, Schaffhausen.

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