1857/12/31 by William Thomson · 377 citations
paper · doi:10.1098/rspl.1856.0144
published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (8), 546-550 (The Royal Society)
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Abstract I have already communicated to the Royal Society a description of experiments by which I found that iron, when subjected to magnetic force, acquires an increase of resistance to the conduction of electricity along, and a diminution of resistance to the conduction of electricity across, the lines of magnetization. By experiments more recently made, I have ascertained that the electric conductivity of nickel is similarly influenced by magnetism, but to a greater degree, and with a curious difference from iron in the relative magnitudes of the transverse and longitudinal effects.