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IN the Philosophical Magazine for January, Mr. Herbert Tomlinson has proposed an explanation of the remarkable fact that in an iron wire, heated red hot by a burner, an electric current is produced when the flame is shifted along the wire (see Wiedemann's “Galvanismus,” ii. 453).
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TROUTON, F. The Temporary Thermo-Current in Iron. Nature 37, 321 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037321a0
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