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RefNoPT/17/9/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, apparatus for measuring flexure by unknown artist
Date16 December 1823
DescriptionGraphite drawing showing an apparatus constructed for measuring the flexure of steel.

Subject: Metallurgy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments on the elasticity and strength of hard and soft steel. In a letter to Thomas Young, M.D. For. Sec. R. S. By Mr. Thomas Tredgold, Civil Engineer'.

Written by Tredgold in London. Read 25 March 1824.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on onion skin paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0240
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1824.0021
RelatedRecordPT/17/9
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7947Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist1773 - 1829
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