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RefNoAP/32/6
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'On the temperature of steam and its corresponding pressure' by John Curr
CreatorCurr; John (fl 1849)
Date1 November 1849
DescriptionIn this paper, which is a continuation of a former paper bearing the same title (see AP/32/5), Curr applies his previously stated laws to new scenarios of hydraulics. He considers that the power of expansive engines has been greatly overrated, instancing those of the Great Britain, which were of the estimated power of 1200 horses, but which he states he can prove did not exceed in actual power that of 300 horses. This he attributes to the inapplicability of Mariotte’s law without a particular limitation. He gives general laws for estimating the pressure of steam when cut off from its generating source.

Subject: Hydraulics

Received 30 May 1850. Read 13 June 1850. Communicated by John Scott Russell.

Written by Curr at 7 Upper Penton Street, Pentonville [London].

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'.
Extent21p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsNot available to view, off site for conservation. Please refer to digital surrogate on Science in the Making.
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0252
RelatedRecordAP/32/5
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5548Russell; John Scott (1808 - 1882)1808 - 1882
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