RefNo | PT/48/6/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, figures 1-5 showing diagrams of expansive action of heat and isothermal curves by William John Macquorn Rankine |
Date | 3 December 1853 |
Description | Figures 1-5 illustrating the expansive action of heat, isothermal curves, and the latent heat of expansion.
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. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
PhysicalDescription | Ink diagrams on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0139 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1854.0007 |
RelatedRecord | RR/2/198 |
RR/2/199 |
PT/48/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA1846 | Rankine; William John Macquorn (1820 - 1872) | 1820 - 1872 |