On the source of power in the voltaic pile
Contributors: Basire, James 1796-1869, engraver; Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867, former owner; Collin, W., binder; Royal Society (Great Britain); Burndy Library
Series: Experimental researches in electricity / by Michael Faraday. Series 16 -- no. 24; Experimental researches in electricity / by Michael Faraday -- no. 24.
Publisher: The Royal Society
Published: 1840
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Electric batteries; Electricity; Experiments; Early works to 1850
Other titles: Experimental researches in electricity, 1832-1848; Electrical and magnetic researches of Michael Faraday, 1838-1851; Dr. Faraday's Experimental researches in electricity; Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London.
Notes: Title and series from caption.

Extracted from the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, v. 130.

"Received January 23,--Read February 6, 1840."

The plate is signed: Js. Basire sc.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.), 64

Dibner Library has three copies.

SCDIRB c. 1 (QC530 .F22 1832 SCDIRB; bound-with, no barcode) is no. 16 in a volume with binder's title: Experimental researches in electricity, 1832-1848.

SCDIRB c. 2 (QC530 .F22 1832 SCDIRB; bound-with, no barcode) is no. 18 in a volume with binder's title: Experimental researches in electricity, 1832-1848.

SCDIRB c. 1 and c. 2 have bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner. Herald of Science no. 64.

SCDIRB c. 1 and c. 2 have a later blue cloth binding with gilt-tooled black embossed-cloth spine label.

SCDIRB c. 3 (QC530 .F22 1839 SCDIRB; bound-with, no barcode) is no. 2 in a volume with binder's title: Electrical and magnetic researches of Michael Faraday, 1838-1851.

SCDIRB c. 3 is imperfect: the leaf of plates is wanting.

SCDIRB c. 3 has bookplates: 1. Michael Faraday; 2. Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner.

SCDIRB c. 3 has a later full vellum binding with gilt-lettered spine, with printed binder's label on front free endpaper: W. Collin, Koenigl. Hofbuchbinder, Berlin.
Table of contents: title: Exciting electrolytes, &c. being conductors of thermo and feeble currents; title: Inactive conducting circles containing an electrolytic fluid; title: Active circles excited by solution of sulphuret of potassium, &c.