| RefNo | AP/21/23 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'Explanation of the phenomena of intermitting springs' by W L Wharton |
| Date | November 1837 |
| Description | Wharton suggests that a stream of water, while falling obliquely down the long leg of a siphon, is broken into drops, and carries air bubbles with it, which, if the lower end of the tube has an abrupt bend upwards, will be impelled forwards, and escape at the open part. This leads to a rarefaction of the remaining air in the tube sufficient to ensure its full operation as a siphon. Includes one diagram in the text of water flowing through the siphon. Followed by a covering letter from James F W [Finlay Weir] Johnston to J G [John George] Children. Marked on back as 'archives' by Peter Mark Roget.
Subject: Hydrology
Received 8 December 1837. Communicated by Johnston.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Explanation of the phænomena of intermitting springs'. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1837.0012 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5942 | Johnston; James Finlay Weir (1796 - 1855) | 1796 - 1855 |
| NA3175 | Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist | 1777 - 1852 |