| RefNo | PT/72/4 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Illustrations and tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith |
| Date | [1865] |
| Description | Several fold-out tables of data relating to deviation of the compass on board numerous Royal Navy ships around the world. 17 pages of manuscript and tables with two separate plates.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship'.
Received by the Royal Society on 9 March 1865. Read 16 March 1865.
Abstract of paper 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 14, 1865. |
| Extent | 19p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1865.0031 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1865.0005 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/5/70 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA2166 | Evans; Sir; Frederick John Owen (1815 - 1885) | 1815 - 1885 |
| NA1486 | Smith; Archibald (1813 - 1872) | 1813 - 1872 |