| RefNo | PT/59/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies' by G B [George Biddell] Airy |
| Date | 8 April 1857 |
| Description | Subject: Metrology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies'.
Received by the Royal Society on 2 May 1857. Read 18 June 1857.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 8, 1857. |
| Extent | 189p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0139 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0031 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/3/7 |
| RR/3/8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |