Reference number | AP/39/23 |
Level | File |
Title | Unpublished paper, 'The gyroscope. A popular explanation of its movements by means of a verbal formula applicable in general to the popular explanation of the phenomena of combined motions. To which is added, the mathematical theory of the gyroscope deduced from elementary principles' by William Cook |
Creator | Cook; William |
Date | 1857 |
Description | Cook begins by describing the gyroscope and sharing details of a series of experiments before discussing the mathematical theory of the gyroscope.
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Includes six figures of the gyroscope and gyroscope motion.
Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments / Mathematics
Received 23 February 1857. Communicated by A W [Alexander William] Williamson.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the theory of the gyroscope'. |
Extent | 31p |
Format | Drawing |
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.1856.0114 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/3/82 |
RR/3/83 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA3754 | Williamson; Alexander William (1824 - 1904) | 1824 - 1904 |