Faraday to Edward William Brayley   11 January 1834

R Institution | 11 Jany 1834

Dear Sir

In reply to yours I send you an answer on the other side. The names I think excellent & hope they will at all events find entrance into public use[.]

Mr Conybeare1 is not aware probably of the admirable Magneto electric machines now constructed by Newman & others[.] An account of their con‑struction has never yet been published. Mr. Saxton first fitted them up in that form & ought to send you a paper & drawing2[.] I have had a continuous shock from one equal to what I have felt from a very powerful voltaic battery3[.]

Every Truly Yours | M. Faraday

E.W. Brayley Esq | &c &c &c

1
William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857, DSB). Geologist. For his interest in electro-magnetism see Conybeare to Faraday, 4 April 1823, letter 191, volume 1.
2
This was not done until Saxton (1836). For the context of this publication see Morus (1991), 24-5.
3
See "National Gallery of Practical Science, Adelaide Street", Lit.Gaz., 16 November 1833, p.730 for Faraday presence on 14 November 1833 at a demonstration of Saxton's machine.

Bibliography

MORUS, Iwan R. (1991): “Telegraphy and the Technology of Display: The Electricians and Samuel Morse”, Hist. Tech., 13: 20-40.

SAXTON, Joseph (1836): “On his Magneto-electrical Machine; with Remarks on Mr. E.M. Clarke's Paper in the preceding number”, Phil. Mag., 9: 360-5.

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