Reference number | PT/61/4/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, apparatus for measuring effect of motion on thermoelectric junctions of copper and wire by unknown artist |
Date | [1860] |
Description | Five figures illustrating an apparatus used to measure the effect of motion of thermoelectric junctions of copper and wire. One figure shows the entirety of the apparatus, two show the angle of the junction in relation to the motion, and two show a bulb wrapped in fine iron and brass wire.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion.—Part III. On the changes of temperature experienced by bodies moving through air'.
Received and read by the Royal Society on 21 June 1860. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
Physical description | Ink diagrams on paper |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0095 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1860.0020 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/4/265 |
PT/61/4 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
NA7041 | Joule; James Prescott (1818 - 1889); physicist | 1818 - 1889 |