Record

RefNoPP/16/24
Previous numbersPP/48/24
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On the action of oils on the motions of camphor on the surface of water' by Charles Tomlinson
Date1890
DescriptionTomlinson writes: 'In Lord Rayleigh’s paper on the above subject, read before the Royal Society on the 27th March last [see PP/15/25], and reported in ‘Nature’ of the 8th May, it is stated that a film of olive oil, in two or three cases, “was incompetent to stop the camphor motions upon a surface including only a few square inches.” I have often noticed this fact as a consequence of the use of chemically-clean materials.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physics

Received 26 May 1890. Read 19 June 1890.

A version of this paper was published in volume 48 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the action of oils on the motions of camphor on the surface of water'.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0035
RelatedRecordPP/15/25
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6333Tomlinson; Charles (1808 - 1897)1808 - 1897
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