Reference number | PP/7/22 |
Previous numbers | PP/39/27 |
Level | File |
Title | Paper, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall |
Date | 1885 |
Description | Thomson 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'. |
Extent | 36p |
Format | Manuscript |
Drawing |
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.1885.0034 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8288 | Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist | 1856 - 1940 |
NA1729 | Newall; Hugh Frank (1857 - 1944); astrophysicist | 1857 - 1944 |