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A Photographic Experiment with Swan's Incandescent Light

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SOME trials I have recently made with Swan's incandescent electric lamps give results that may possibly interest your readers. I employed throughout an electric stream of the same energy—that generated by thirty Grove cells, and as the whole experiment lasted but an hour, it may be assumed, for all practical purposes, that the strength of the current was uniform throughout.

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PRITCHARD, H. A Photographic Experiment with Swan's Incandescent Light. Nature 25, 54–55 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/025054a0

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