Peter Henry Berthon to Faraday   30 December 1863

Trinity House, London. E.C. | 30th December. 1863.

Sir,

I am directed to request that you will favor the Elder Brethren with any observations or suggestions which you may consider necessary in relation to the communication, copy of which I enclose1, on the subject of a patented invention for producing an Electric Light for Light-Houses from a new form of Galvanic Battery2.

I am, | Sir, | Your most humble Servant, | P.H. Berthon

M. Faraday Esqr | &c &c &c | Royal Institution. | Albemarle Street.

1
Dickson to Trinity House, 22 December 1863, LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142.
2
James Dickson, Patent 340, 10 February 1862, ‘Improvements in voltaic apparatus and in the production of voltaic electricity’.

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