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RefNoPP/18/11
Previous numbersPP/50/12
LevelItem
TitlePaper, 'On a compensated air thermometer' by Hugh Longbourne Callendar
Date1891
DescriptionCallendar writes: 'In a paper which I had the honour to present to the Royal Society some four years ago “On the Practical Measurement of Temperature,” I described in detail a somewhat elaborate form of air thermometer with which it was found possible to attain an accuracy of the order of 0.01° C. I have since succeeded in overcoming some of the difficulties encountered in that investigation, and in evolving on similar lines a form of instrument which is capable of a much higher order of accuracy, and which has the further advantage that both the observations and the calculations are immensely simplified.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments

Received 29 October 1891. Read 10 December 1891. Communicated by Joseph John Thomson.

A version of this paper was published in volume 50 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a compensated air thermometer'.
Extent8p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1886.0089
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1887.0006
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1891.0032
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5307Callendar; Hugh Longbourne (1863 - 1930); physicist1863 - 1930
NA8288Thomson; Sir; Joseph John (1856 - 1940); physicist1856 - 1940
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