Record

RefNoPT/14/27
LevelFile
TitleLetter and plates, relating to 'On the compressibility of water' from Jacob Perkins to the Right Hon Sir Joseph Banks
CreatorPerkins; Jacob (1766-1849); American inventor; engineer; physicist
Date7 June 1820
DescriptionLetter accompanying Perkins' paper 'On the compressibility of water', found at PT/16/26. Letter includes illustrations published with paper, showing a piezometer and cannon.

The letter was not published. The illustrations were published in Philosophical Transactions as part of the paper titled 'On the compressibility of water'.

Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 29 June 1820.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0136
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0022
RelatedRecordPT/14/26
PT/14/27/1
PT/14/27/2
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
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