Faraday to Richard Taylor   6 January 1841

Private

RI. | 6 Jan 1840 [sic]

My dear Sir

The Annals extract of a letter to M Faraday1 is mainly an extract from what you have published2.- As to Peltiers paper3 I think I should translate & print it not that it settles but because it bears upon the question of the cause of the phenomenon4. As to Dr Schafthaeutls5 paper you must judge for yourself6[.] Peltier Armstrong7 & he are all of different opinions as to the cause & I do not see any clear experiment which shows who is right.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

R Taylor Esq | &c &c &c

1
Armstrong (1840c).
2
Armstrong (1840a). See Armstrong to Faraday, 14 October 1840 and 22 October 1840, letters 1315 and 1317, volume 2, which deal with the production of electricity from steam.
3
Peltier (1840b).
4
Peltier (1841).
5
Karl Emile Schafhaeutl (1803-1890, ADB). Geologist and librarian at the University of Munich.
6
Schafhaeutl (1841).
7
William George Armstrong (1810-1900, DNB1). Inventor and industrialist in North-East England.

Bibliography

ARMSTRONG, William George (1840a): “On the Electricity of a Jet of Steam issuing from a Boiler”, Phil. Mag., 17: 370-4.

ARMSTRONG, William George (1840c): “On the Electricity of a Jet of Steam issuing from a Boiler”, Ann. Elec., 5: 452-5.

PELTIER, Jean Charles Athanase (1840b): “Observations sur le fait précédent [Armstrong (1840b)]”, Ann. Chim., 75: 330-3.

PELTIER, Jean Charles Athanase (1841): “On the Phaenomena of the Electricity of Steam, observed by Mr. Pattinson and Mr. Armstrong”, Phil. Mag., 18: 100-2.

SCHAFHAEUTL, Karl Emile (1841): “On the Circumstances under which Steam developes Positive Electricity”, Phil. Mag., 18: 95-99.

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