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RefNoAP/60/18
LevelFile
TitleUnpublished figures and photographs, 'On a machine for solving simultaneous linear equations' by William Thomson
Date1879
DescriptionPlans and photographs of Thomson's machine. Two photographs at end relate to his Harmonic Analyser, not the machine of the title. The paper was abstracted without illustrations in volume 28 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a machine for the solution of simultaneous linear equations'.

Subject: Engineering
Extent9p
FormatPhotograph
Drawing
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper and photograph
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1878.0099
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8289Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; physicist1824 - 1907
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