| RefNo | PT/73/13/8 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagrams, weighing machine and boats by unknown artist |
| Date | [1827] |
| Description | Plate 1 showing different sized boats as well as the weighing machines used by Walker to study the resistance of fluids. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and a scale. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Watermarked 'Ruse & Turners 1824'. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Physics
Published in volume 118 of Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the resistance of fluids to bodies passing through them' by James Walker.
Read to the Royal Society on 31 May 1827. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 326x205mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1828.0003 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0331 |
| RelatedRecord | AP/17/13 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5839 | Walker; James (1781 - 1862) | 1781 - 1862 |