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RefNoPT/73/15/28
LevelItem
TitleDiagram, water barometer by Charles Stewart Drewry
Date[1832]
DescriptionPlate 19 showing a diagram of the design and construction of the water barometer that was placed in the hall of the Royal Society. Inscribed with publication and plate details. A key corresponding to letters labelling parts of the apparatus is written in pencil along the left side of the diagram. Signed in ink bottom left 'Charles Stewart Drewry' and below '77 Chancery Lane [London]', struck out in pencil.

Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the water-barometer erected in the hall of the Royal Society' by John Frederic Daniell.

Read to the Royal Society on 21 June 1832.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionWatercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions302x227mm
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1832.0024
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0079
RelatedRecordPT/20/10
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8195Daniell; John Frederic (1790 - 1845); physicist1790 - 1845
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