| Reference number | AP/18/18 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On a new law of combustion' by Charles J B [James Blasius] Williams |
| Date | March 1834 |
| Description | Williams sets out to prove that 'most combustible bodies undergo a kind of combustion attended with light and heat, at a temperature considerably below that usually assigned as their igniting point'. Annotations in pencil throughout.
Subject: Thermochemistry
Received 6 March 1834. Communicated by W G [William George] Maton.
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 a new law of combustion'. |
| Extent | 18p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0156 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA7295 | Maton; William George (1774 - 1835) | 1774 - 1835 |
| NA1762 | Williams; Charles James Blasius (1805 - 1889) | 1805 - 1889 |