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2026-10-04 Google web search and Google Books (Chrome)

Investigator Step I, first run. Chrome, new tab. Timer start (date +%s) 1791152385; research stopped at about 415 s.

Queries

  1. "Kennard" "unipolar induction" 1917 OR 1912 OR 1913 Philosophical Magazine OR "Physical Review"
  2. site:archive.org Kennard "unipolar induction"
  3. "Earle Hesse Kennard" OR "E. H. Kennard" physicist Cornell Minnesota biography obituary
  4. "Electrodynamics of Moving Media" 1922 Kennard Swann "National Research Council" bulletin unipolar
  5. "Kennard" "Barnett" rotating condenser solenoid unipolar induction experiment aether history
  6. "crossref-pre-1923" "unipolar induction" OR "physrev.1.355" OR "14786440608637294" OR "physrev.10.591"
  7. archive.org "philosophical magazine" "6th ser." "v. 23" 1912 (no archive.org hit)
  8. Pegram 1917 "Unipolar induction and electron theory" Physical Review pdf
  9. "One century later" "Remarks on the Barnett experiment" OR "Unipolar induction: a case study of the interaction between science and technology"
  10. Google Books: "Kennard" "unipolar induction" aether 1912..1925
  11. site:conservancy.umn.edu OR site:umn.edu Kennard physics 1915 OR 1916 Erikson "unipolar" OR "Kennard" instructor (no results)
  12. "Kennard" University of Minnesota physics 1914 1916 "Erikson" unipolar OR "rotating condenser"

Findings

  • Bibliographic confirmation: Taylor & Francis lists the paper as Phil. Mag. ser. 6, vol. 33, issue 194, pp. 179-190 (Feb 1917), DOI 10.1080/14786440208635625 [web] https://www.tandfonline.com (result snippet); Google Scholar shows "Cited by 69" [web]. This retags the facts.json [memory] journal attribution as [web].
  • Kennard's two companion papers identified (priority 1): "XCIII. Unipolar induction", Phil. Mag. ser. 6, vol. 23, pp. 937-941 (June 1912), DOI 10.1080/14786440608637294; "The Effect of Dielectrics on Unipolar Induction", Phys. Rev. 1(5), pp. 355-359 (May 1913), DOI 10.1103/PhysRev.1.355 [web] Crossref API and Academia.edu snippet.
  • Copy of the 1917 paper is also on conspiracyoflight.com (https://www.conspiracyoflight.com, Kennard folder, 12-page PDF) and in the archive.org crossref-pre-1923 collection [web].
  • Wikimedia Commons hosts the full 1917 volume: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/The_London%2C_Edinburgh_and_Dublin_philosophical_magazine_and_journal_of_science_%28IA_londonedinburg6331917lond%29.pdf [web]. This led to the archive.org identifiers (see archive-org note).
  • Later literature citing Kennard (priority 2/3): Müller 2013/2014 IEEE Trans. Magn. "Unipolar induction revisited" (ieeexplore); Baumgärtel 2021 PIER; Baumgärtel & Maher 2022 Sci. Rep.; C.C. Su 2005 arXiv physics/0512179 (reexamination of Barnett); Kholmetskii 2003 Am. J. Phys. 71, 558 "One century later: Remarks on the Barnett experiment" (+ erratum); Chyba & Hand 2016 Phys. Rev. Applied 6, 014017 and 2020 reply; Chyba, Hand & Chyba 2025 Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013285; K. T. McDonald "Is Faraday's Disk Dynamo a Flux-Rule Exception?" (Princeton, 131 pp); a Springer "Frontiers of Physics: 1900-1911" snippet (A. I. Miller essays): "In 1917 Pegram reminded Barnett and Kennard as well as 'many well-trained physicists and engineers' that as long ago as ..." [web] Google snippet, not opened.
  • Google Books, priority 4: a 1924 University of Wisconsin College of Engineering B.S. thesis volume ("Bachelor's Theses Manuscript", Google Books id KalsAAAAMAAJ, full view, "Download PDF" offered) whose bibliography p.70 lists Kennard 1917 and "Kennard, E. H. The Effects of ..." (1913). Its common terms include Arago's, copper disk, electron drift, electron theory, unipolar, so it appears to be a student thesis on unipolar induction [web] https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/KalsAAAAMAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=unipolar. The thesis title and author were not reached.
  • Kennard's 1917 paper was abstracted in German bibliographies at once: Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik 14-15 (1917) p.377, and Fortschritte der Physik / Berichte der DPG 19 (1917) p.110 [web] Google Books snippets.
  • University of Minnesota searches: nothing on Kennard's 1914-1916 years, Henry A. Erikson or Christian Dane (query 11, 0 results; query 12, no relevant hit apart from the Phil. Mag. volume).