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Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schoenbein   6 September 1843

R Institution | 6 Septr. 1843

My dear Friend

I wrote to you 5 or 6 weeks ago1 by Dr Yates2 but do not feel sure you will have seen him yet. Now I find your friend Mr. Ryhiner3 is on the point of returning to Basle and so spoil half a sheet of paper for a word with you. I hope all are well & happy with you. My kindest remembrances to Mrs Schoenbein

<-> interrupted <->now I return. I called at the Royal Society to day & found my paper on steam4 for you was gone. I have not another copy or I would send it. Mr Armstrong5 has constructed a magnificent steam electric apparatus which I should think produces about 8 or 10 times as much electricity as our large machine in a given time6. I have seen nothing of your book7 yet except some extracts in the Athenaeum8. Several are longing for it.

I must conclude for both head & handare very unsteady[.]

Ever Dear Schoenbein | Your faithful friend | M. Faraday


Address: Dr. Schoenbein | &c &c &c

2
James Yates (1789-1871, DNB). Unitarian and antiquary. Secretary to the Council of the British Association, 1832 to 1841.
3
Unidentified.
4
Faraday (1843a), ERE18.
5
William George Armstrong (1810-1900, DNB1). Inventor and industrialist in North-East England.
6
See Armstrong (1843).
7
[Schoenbein] (1842a).
8
"Extracts from the Travelling Diary of a German Naturalist", Athenaeum, 22 July 1843, pp.664-6, 29 July 1843, pp.690-1.

Bibliography

ARMSTRONG, William George (1843): “Account of a Hydro-electric Machine constructed for the Polytechnic Institution, and of some Experiments performed by its means”, Phil. Mag., 23: 194-202.

FARADAY, Michael (1843a): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. -Eighteenth Series. On the electricity evolved by the friction of water and steam against other bodies”, Phil. Trans., 133: 17-32.

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