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Reference numberPP/7/22
Previous numbersPP/39/27
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall
Date1885
DescriptionThomson and Newall write: 'When a drop of ink falls into water from not too great a height, it descends through the water as a ring, in which there is evidently considerable rotation about the circular axis passing through the centres of its cross sections; as the ring travels down through the water inequalities make their appearance: more ink seems to collect in some parts of it than in others'.

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes 12 pages of figures.

Subject: Physics / Fluid dynamics

Received 28 November 1885. Read 17 December 1885.

A version of this paper was published in volume 39 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena'.
Extent36p
FormatManuscript
Drawing
Physical descriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1885.0034
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8288Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist1856 - 1940
NA1729Newall; Hugh Frank (1857 - 1944); astrophysicist1857 - 1944
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