RefNo | PT/54/5/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, map of County Durham, England by [George Biddell Airy] |
Date | [1855] |
Description | Depth grids centred on Harton Colliery, County Durham with other local pits, towns, and railway lines marked in the region between Tynemouth and Monkwearmouth. The map is scaled and pasted onto a support with three additional details, including figures of the Earth. Figures 1-4 published as plate 12 in the paper.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth'.
Received by the Royal Society on 26 December 1855. Read 24 and 31 January 1856. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Map |
PhysicalDescription | Map drawn in ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0007 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1856.0015 |
RelatedRecord | PT/54/5 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |