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RefNoPT/48/6
LevelFile
TitlePaper, 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines' by William John Macquorn Rankine
Date3 December 1853
Description93 manuscript pages and six plates showing graphs of the expansive action of heat and thermodynamic engines.

Subject: Physics / Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines'.

Written by Rankine in Glasgow. Received by the Royal Society on 5 December 1853. Read 19 January 1854.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 6, 1854.
Extent99p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0139
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1854.0007
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CodePersonNameDates
NA1846Rankine; William John Macquorn (1820 - 1872)1820 - 1872
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