Record

RefNoMS/257/1/236
AltRefNoSa.236
Previous numbersES1/38/236
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Charles Brooke, 29 Keppel Street to Edward Sabine
Date9 October 1848
DescriptionBrooke is sending Sabine Captain [Henry] Lefroy’s model register. Captain ‘S’ is expecting a magnet however Brooke has not been requested to supply him with one. Brooke a succeeded with a complete thermometer register in which the place of the mercury and the scale of the thermometer are ‘impressed’ on the paper, and describes his method for achieving this. Suggests putting a short summary of this instrument along with a sample of the results in the [Philosophical] Transactions. Discussion on estimating the value of the scale in parts of force in the bifilar.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7650Brooke; Charles (1804 - 1879)1804 - 1879
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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