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IN the Bakerian Lecture of 1850, Faraday described a series of experiments which he had made in searching for a connexion between gravity and electricity. “The long and constant persuasion,” he said, “that all the forces of Nature are mutually dependent, having one common origin, or rather being different manifestations of one fundamental power, has made me often think upon the possibility of establishing, by experiment, a connexion between gravity and electricity, and so introducing the former into the group, the chain of which, including also magnetism, chemical force, and heat, binds so many and such varied exhibitions of force together by common relations.”
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From a lecture delivered to the London Mathematical Society.
Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 118, 184; 1928.
A figure is given in Mr. Copson's Paper, loc. cit.
Reference may be made to Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 116, 720; 1927.
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WHITTAKER, E. The Influence of Gravitation on Electromagnetic Phenomena1. Nature 121, 1022–1024 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/1211022a0
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