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RefNoAP/37/8
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished paper, 'Of an experiment to ascertain whether the atmosphere influences the burning of fuses' by J Mitchell
CreatorMitchell; J
Date1855
DescriptionMitchell writes that during an annual practice of the artillery it was noted that 'the fuses burned too long a time' and shares details of investigations into this phenomenon.

Subject: Physics

Written by Mitchell in Bangalore [India].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Extract of a letter, dated January 6, 1855, from J. Mitchell , Esq., Quartermaster of artillery, Bangalore, on the influence of local altitude on the burning of the fuses of shells'.
Extent6p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0074
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