Record

RefNoAP/15/11
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Paper on the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable, by magnetic deviation' by W [William] Scoresby
Date[1831]
DescriptionScoresby's paper is written in three parts:
- 'On the permeability of all known substances by the magnetic influence, and the application of the fact in engineering and mining operations, for the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable';
- 'The law of the directive power of bar magnets, at different distances';
- 'On the practical application of the magnetic influence in engineering and mining operations, in order to the determination of the thickness of solid substances not otherwise measurable'.

Includes five separate pages of illustrations.

Subject: Physics / Engineering

Read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1831.

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 the determination of the thickness of solid substances, not otherwise measurable, by magnetic deviations'.
Extent129p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0039
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6138Scoresby; William (1789 - 1857)1789 - 1857
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