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RefNoAP/78/5/1
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished manuscript, 'The specific heats of air and carbon dioxide. Details of the method of calibration of the potentiometer, with record of data' by W F G [William Francis Gray] Swann
CreatorSwann; William Francis Gray (1884-1962); Anglo-American physicist
Date1908
DescriptionSwann undertook an experiment in which a steady stream of gas was passed through a jacketed tube (the calorimeter proper), in which it was heated by a current of electricity passing through a platinum coil of 1 ohm resistance, the rise in temperature being measured by two 12-ohm platinum thermometers used differentially. In this paper he describes the method of calibration of the potentiometer used and presents experimental data.

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Note on front reads 'Not to be printed, to be preserved in the archives of the Royal Society.' Includes five plates of diagrams of experimental apparatus.

Subject: Chemistry / Thermodynamics

Received 8 October 1908. Communicated by H L [Hugh Longbourne] Callendar.

An associated paper was published in volume 210 of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A as 'On the specific heats of air and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure by the continuous electric method at 20˚ C. and 100˚ C'.
Extent88p
FormatTypescript
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1909.0015
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1911.0006
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5307Callendar; Hugh Longbourne (1863 - 1930); physicist1863 - 1930
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