Record

RefNoAP/10/31/2
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished drawings, views of cards and tube by John Bates
Date1 October 1833
DescriptionTwo drawings showing a side view and a view from above of the arrangement of cards and a tube described in 'A curious fact'. The side view includes drawings of the movement of air within the tube and around the cards.

Subject: Physics

Written by Bates in Wilson Street, Newark [Nottinghamshire] and addressed to the President of the Royal Society [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex]. Postmarked 3 October 1833.
Extent1p
FormatDrawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordAP/10/31
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8338Augustus Frederick (1773 - 1843); Duke of Sussex1773 - 1843
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