Record

RefNoPT/75/8/26
Previous numbersPT/7/8/25
LevelItem
TitleDrawing, photometric arrangement by Fried [Friedrich] Veith
Date[1859]
DescriptionPlate 43, figure 4 showing a photometric arrangement of instruments used in Bunsen and Roscoe's experiments, including a blackened tube with a diaphragm of drawing paper, a divided quadrant, a moveable scale, a burner, an eye tube, and a lamp. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed bottom right 'Fried. Veith del.' The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Photo-chemical researches.—Part IV' by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Henry Enfield Roscoe.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 26 May 1859.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on paper
Dimensions272x202mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1859.0035
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0018
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8155Bunsen; Robert Wilhelm (1811 - 1899)1811 - 1899
NA8277Roscoe; Sir; Henry Enfield (1833 - 1915); chemist and university administrator1833 - 1915

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