| RefNo | PT/73/14/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagram, 'Elevation of the apparatus for trying the friction of water' by unknown artist |
| Date | [1831] |
| Description | Plate 12, showing an apparatus employed by Harris to study the resistance of solids moving in static fluids, fluids moving over solids, and solids revolving in static fluids. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and a scale. Not signed.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the friction and resistance of fluids' by George Rennie.
Read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1831. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour and ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 272x204mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0034 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1831.0024 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/19/7 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3414 | Rennie; George (1791 - 1866) | 1791 - 1866 |