| Reference number | PT/48/6 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Paper, 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines' by William John Macquorn Rankine |
| Date | 3 December 1853 |
| Description | 93 manuscript pages and six plates showing graphs of the expansive action of heat and thermodynamic engines.
Subject: Physics / Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines'.
Written by Rankine in Glasgow. Received by the Royal Society on 5 December 1853. Read 19 January 1854.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854. |
| Extent | 99p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0139 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1854.0007 |
| Related records in the catalogue | RR/2/198 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1846 | Rankine; William John Macquorn (1820 - 1872) | 1820 - 1872 |