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RefNoPT/59/9/3
LevelItem
TitlePlate, slab of Blaenavon iron with eight iron cylinders by unknown artist
Date[1856]
DescriptionDiagram accompanying table VIII showing a slab of Blaenavon [south Wales] iron with eight cylinders on it, used to test the relative internal strength of larger pillars versus smaller ones.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches on the strength of pillars of cast iron from various parts of the Kingdom'.

Received by the Royal Society on 20 November 1856. Read 8 January 1857.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk diagram on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0081
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1857.0039
RelatedRecordPT/59/9
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7156Hodgkinson; Eaton (1789 - 1861)1789 - 1861
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