RefNo | PT/59/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Paper, 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies' by G B [George Biddell] Airy |
Date | 8 April 1857 |
Description | Subject: Metrology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies'.
Received by the Royal Society on 2 May 1857. Read 18 June 1857.
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 8, 1857. |
Extent | 189p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0139 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0031 |
RelatedRecord | RR/3/7 |
RR/3/8 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8035 | Airy; Sir; George Biddell (1801 - 1892); astronomer and mathematician | 1801 - 1892 |