| RefNo | NLB/7/332 |
| AltRefNo | NLB/7 p151-152 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Memoranda with reference to a statement submitted to the Council of the Royal Society by Dr Hermann Johann Phillipp Sprengel, from Frederick Augustus Abel |
| Date | 13 December 1892 |
| Description | Abel discusses Sprengel's 'discovery' of cumulative detonation of guncotton which Sprengel submitted to the Chemical Society on 1 May 1873, seven months before Abel's second memoir 'Contributions to the History of Explosive Agents' was communicated to the Royal Society (November 1873). Discusses the observation of his assistant Mr E O Brown, with respect to wet compressed guncotton detonation. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Carbon |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6484 | Sprengel; Hermann Johann Phillipp (1834 - 1906); chemist | 1834 - 1906 |
| NA3596 | Abel; Sir; Frederick Augustus (1827 - 1902); chemist and explosives expert | 1827 - 1902 |