RefNo | MM/14/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | 'Estimate of Works proposed to be done for Dr Young at the Royal Institution Abermarle Street', by Joshua Ramsey |
Date | September 1827 |
Description | On the erection of a furnace for the use of the Optical Glass Committee.
"Of the active Committee of Michael Faraday, George Dollond and Herschel, Faraday was to analyse chemically the glass in use and to devise experimentally a better glass, Dollond was to act as a practical optician and Herschel was to test its optical properties". M Boas-Hall, 'All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century', Cambridge: CUP, 1984, p32 |
Extent | 2 sides |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | See CMB/69-71 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |