| RefNo | AP/32/5 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'On the temperature of steam and its corresponding pressure' by John Curr |
| Creator | Curr; John (fl 1849) |
| Date | June 1849 |
| Description | Curr aims to propose a simple law to determine the pressure of steam corresponding to any given temperature, irrespectively of experiment, taking as the sole datum that the vaporising point of water under a given pressure is 100 degrees Celsius. He aims to construct formulae in accordance with this and to compare their results with the actual experiments of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. He concludes that the pressure of steam generated in the usual steam-boiler is directly proportional to the fourth power of its temperature, when measured by a true scale.
Subject: Hydraulics
Received 20 June 1849 / 7 February 1850. Communicated by John Scott Russell.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 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 temperature of steam and its corresponding pressure'. |
| Extent | 22p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | Not available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making. |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0235 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/32/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5548 | Russell; John Scott (1808 - 1882) | 1808 - 1882 |