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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
The researches described in this paper had for their object the direct measurement of the Peltier effect, with a view to verify the hypotheses regarding it and the laws deduced from these. Hitherto it has been a pure assumption that the Peltier effect vanishes at the neutral point. As this important assumption forms part of the basis of the received theory of thermoelectricity, to prove it was one of the main objects of these experiments.
* Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., 1882. If we introduce the specific-heat correction (12 % per ° C.) we get a much nearer agreement than that shown there.Google Scholar
note* page 402 183° C. (and not 190° C.) is clearly the true neutral point of the FeZn piles, since at 183° their thermoelectric power vanishes.
† Similar measurements with two thermopiles of FeArg and NiArg also warrant this conclusion.
note * page 404 These four terms correspond to the four sets of thermopile junctions.
note*page 405 I.e., not varying much more than 2° C. in half-an-hour.