Charles Manby to Faraday   16 April 1857

16 April 1857

My dear Sir,

We are to have a paper next Tuesday evening by Mr Robert Hunt1 “On Electro-magnetism as a Motive Power”2.

May we hope to have the pleasure of your attendance on that occasion? I trust that we shall be so favoured, & that you will give us your views on this interesting question, in the course of the discussion3.

Yours faithfully | Charles Manby | Secretary

Professor Faraday FRS | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | Piccadilly

1
Robert Hunt (1807-1887, ODNB). Lecturer on mechanical science at the Royal School of Mines from 1851 and on experimental physics from 1853.
2
That is 21 April 1857 when Hunt (1857) was read.
3
No evidence has been found which indicates whether or not Faraday attended the meeting at the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Bibliography

HUNT, Robert (1857): “On Electo-Magnetism as a Motive Power”, Min. Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng., 16: 386-421.

Please cite as “Faraday3271,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3271