Kensington 10 Mar 1838
Dear Faraday
You ought to have had the answer to your enquiries on Tuesday had not the post failed in delivering the Letter[.]
The Experiments of Sir H Davy on the Mercurial line or Nebula was made by the use of my large Coil or Pair of Plates, described in Vol 113 Page 187 of the Phil Tran for 18232 and his account of the Exps at Page 153 of the same volume3[.]
In general his other Experiments at the London Institution were made with this Large Battery of 2000 Plates the same as that at the Royal Inst. They were so arranged that a 1000 1500 or the whole might be used simultaneously[.] Should you require any more particulars I shall be happy to give them[.]
Ever Truly Yours | W.H. Pepys
DAVY, Humphry (1823): “On a new phenomenon of electro-magnetism”, Phil. Trans., 113: 153-9.
PEPYS, William Hasledine (1823): “An account of an apparatus on a peculiar construction for performing electro-magnetic experiments”, Phil. Trans., 113: 187-8.
Please cite as “Faraday1070,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1070