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RefNoPT/32/3/2
LevelItem
TitlePaper, water vapours and droplets viewed through microscope by Augustus Volney Waller
Date12 April 1846
DescriptionPlate containing figures 1-8 showing water vapours from breath and steam, water droplets, and frozen water droplets viewed through a microscope. Canada balsam and castor oil are used to preserve the water droplets.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Microscopic observations on the so-called vesicular vapours of water, as existing in the vapours of steam, and in clouds, &c'.

Written by Waller in Kensington [London]. Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget. Received by the Royal Society on 13 April 1846. Read 16 June 1846.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagrams on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0098
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1847.0003
RelatedRecordPT/32/3
PT/32/3
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5239Waller; Augustus Volney (1816 - 1870)1816 - 1870
NA6616Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist1779 - 1869
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