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RefNoPT/12/4/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, diagram of arrangement of instruments for Kater's experiment by Caroline Broume
Date[1817]
DescriptionPlate 5 containing a diagram drawn in ink by Caroline Broume. A manuscript annotation indicates that the diagram was later engraved by W [Wilson] Lowry. The diagram shows the arrangement of instruments for Kater's experiment.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An Account of experiments for determining the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds in the latitude of London'.

Written by Kater in London. Read 29 January 1818.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagram on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0075
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1818.0006
RelatedRecordPT/12/4
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA1206Kater; Henry (1777 - 1835)1777 - 1835
NA3262Lowry; Wilson (1762 - 1824); engraver and mathematician1762 - 1824
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