| RefNo | AP/15/11/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished diagrams, placement of compasses near walls by W [William] Scoresby |
| Date | [1831] |
| Description | Figures 1-2 showingthe placement of compasses in relation to walls so as to determine their thicknesses.
Subject: Physics / Engineering
Read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1831.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable, by magnetic deviations'. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0039 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/15/11 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6138 | Scoresby; William (1789 - 1857) | 1789 - 1857 |