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Reference numberAP/34/19
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the application of the law of the conservation of energy to the determination of the magnetic meridian on board ship; when out of reach or out of sight of land' by William John Macquorn Rankine
Date2 April 1853
DescriptionRankine states that, assuming that when a ship is swung completely round, so that her head bears exactly as it did at first, the magnetism of the ship, and that of the compass-needle return to their original condition, the following theorem is necessarily true: the mechanical power developed by the mutual action of the ship and of the compass-needle during a complete revolution of the ship is equal to zero.

Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Physics / Marine engineering

Received 5 April 1853. Communicated by Col [Edward] Sabine.

Written by Rankine in Glasgow [Scotland].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 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 application of the law of the conservation of energy to the determination of the magnetic meridian on board ship, when out of reach or out of sight of land'.
Extent12p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0110
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1846Rankine; William John Macquorn (1820 - 1872)1820 - 1872
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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