Record

RefNoPT/15/27/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, diagrams of chronometer parts by unknown artist
Date[1821]
DescriptionThree figures showing the balance and spring of the chronometer, the iron shell of the chronometer, and the pedestal and plate of the chronometer.

Subject: Scientific Instruments

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the effects produced in the rates of chronometers by the proximity of masses of iron'.

Communicated by John Barrow. Read 28 June 1821.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0160
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1821.0026
RelatedRecordPT/15/27
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5788Barlow; Peter (1776 - 1862); mathematician1776 - 1862
NA2824Barrow; Sir; John (1764 - 1848)1764 - 1848
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