One "line" seems to have been about 1/12 inch.
J. G. POGGENDORF, "Physisch-chemische Untersuchungen zur naeheren Kenntniss des Magnetismus der voltaischen Saeule," Isis von Oken (1821), vol. 8, pp. 687-710. Most of Poggendorf's numerical data is also in C. H. PFAFF, Der Elektromagnetismus (Hamburg, 1824), along with some of Pfaff's own work.
Reported in Annales de Chimie et de Physique (1820), vol. 15, pp. 222-223.
"On the Development of Electro-Magnetism by Heat," Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (1823), vol. 2, pp. 47-76.
"Account of the New Galvano-Magnetic Condenser invented by M. Poggendorf of Berlin," Edinburgh Philosophical Journal (July 1821), vol. 5, pp. 112-113.
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INDEX
Aldini, Giovanni, 124
Ampere, Andre Marie, 127, 129
Arago, Dominique Francois Jean, 129
Bennet, Abraham, 124
Berzelius, Joens Jakob, 133
Bettany, G. T., 136
Biot, Jean Baptiste, 135
Carlisle, Anthony, 124
Cavallo, Tiberio, 124
Cavendish, Henry, 123
Cummings, James, 125, 127, 133
Erman, Paul, 128, 129, 132, 133
Faraday, Michael, 125
Galvani, Luigi, 124
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 125
Gilbert, L. W., 127, 132
Meineke, ----, 128
Nicholson, William, 124
Oersted, Hans Christian, 125, 132
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