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RefNoAP/67/6/1
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished manuscript, 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations; and on a new focometer' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson
Date3 February 1891
DescriptionThompson presents his focometer, providing a description of the instrument and its uses.

Annotations in pencil. Includes a photograph and sketch of Thompson's focometer.

Subject: Optics / Scientific apparatus and instruments

Received 4 February 1891. Read 19 February 1891. Communicated by Professor G [George] Carey Foster.

Written by Thompson at City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury [London].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer'.
Extent35p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0087
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7141Thompson; Silvanus Phillips (1851 - 1916); physicist and electrical engineer1851 - 1916
NA6347Foster; George Carey (1835 - 1919); physicist1835 - 1919
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