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IN my discourse on “Tyndall's Experiments on Magne-crystallic Action”, delivered at the Royal Institution on Friday, Jan. 21, 1927, and published as a supplement to NATURE of May 7 of that year, I gave a short account of Faraday's first successful experiment on diamagnetism. He used a piece of heavy glass which he described in his Diary as No. 174. At that time I searched through all the specimens of Faraday's heavy glass in the Royal Institution but was unable to find it. It has just turned up, being contained in a box which Mrs. Tyndall has most kindly allowed me to examine.
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BRAGG, W. Faraday's First Successful Experiment on Diamagnetism. Nature 127, 337 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127337a0
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