RefNo | MS/928/2/113 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from William Lockhart, St Joseph's, Glasthule, Kingston Co, Dublin, to Charles Vernon Boys |
Creator | Lockhart; William (fl.1890s-1920s); Irish priest [?] |
Recipient | Boys; Sir Charles Vernon (1855-1944); British physicist and inventor |
Date | 31 March 1899 |
Description | He has read an account of Boys's determination of the gravitational constant from the 'Daily Chronicle'. Lockhart met Professor Braun in 1897 and he wrote in Lockhart's notebook his own calculation of this value, which he compared with Boys's. Lockhart reproduces this result for Boys. |
Extent | 2p. |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | On paper |
AccessStatus | Open |