Joseph Henry's Letter to Benjamin Peirce (December 30, 1845)
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Letter from Joseph Henry, then a professor at Princeton University and later first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to Benjamin Peirce, a mathematician and professor at Harvard University, December 30, 1845. In the letter, Henry discusses a recent electromagnetic discovery made by Michael Faraday, an English physicist, and his attempts to reproduce the result. Henry notes that the experiment was one that he had attempted a few years earlier, but that it had failed due to lack of galvanic power. He writes about his busy teaching schedule, which has prevented him from conducting research and experiments.
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4 pages scanned from the edited transcript of the original version and notes in the Joseph Henry Papers Volume 6, pages 355-359.
Rothenberg, Marc, et al, eds., The Papers of Joseph Henry, Volume 6, The Princeton Years: January 1844-December 1846 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1992), 355-359
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 30, 1845
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