| RefNo | PT/66/2/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, 'Apparatus for determining the law of the expansion of superheated steam' by [William] Fairbairn |
| Date | 20 March 1862 |
| Description | Diagram showing the apparatus used by Fairbairn and Tate to experiment on the expansion of superheated steam when the pressure did not exceed that of the atmosphere.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the law of expansion of superheated steam'.
Received by the Royal Society on 20 March 1862. Read 3 April 1862. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and watercolour diagram on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1862.0008 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1862.0029 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/66/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6039 | Fairbairn; Sir; William (1789 - 1874) | 1789 - 1874 |