| Reference number | PP/13/5 |
| Previous numbers | PP/45/6 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'Determination of the viscosity of water' by [Arnulph] Mallock |
| Date | 1888 |
| Description | Mallock writes: 'The experiments here described, which were made during April and May of the present year (1888), to determine the constant of viscosity of water, may be of some interest on account of the newness of the method employed, and also as being on rather a larger scale than other experiments which have been made with the same object. Fig. 1 gives a section of the apparatus used. A and B are two coaxial cylinders; of these A is mounted on the vertical axis E, and can be made to rotate by a belt passing over the wheel F. B is suspended by a long fine wire C, and the annular space between A and B is filled with water or any other fluid to be experimented on.'
Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two pages of diagrams of experimental apparatus and results.
Subject: Physics
Received 30 November 1888. Read 13 December 1888. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt].
A version of this paper was published in volume 45 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Determination of the viscosity of water'. |
| Extent | 9p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Diagram |
| Physical description | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1888.0081 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1356 | Mallock; Henry Reginald Arnulph (1851 - 1933); scientific instrument designer and experimentalist | 1851 - 1933 |
| NA6090 | Strutt; John William (1842 - 1919); 3rd Baron Rayleigh; experimental and mathematical physicist | 1842 - 1919 |