| RefNo | PT/75/8/2 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagram, vacuum tube and carbonic acid generator by [John Peter Gassiot?] |
| Date | [1858] |
| Description | Compressed version of plate 9, figure 8 (labelled here as figure 1) showing a vacuum tube in which platinum wires are hermetically sealed, attached to a carbonic acid generator. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Part of a graphite illustration of a vacuum tube visible verso. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the stratifications in electrical discharges, as observed in torricellian and other vacua. —Second communication' by John Peter Gassiot.
Received by the Royal Society on 9 December 1858. Read 13 January 1859. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Dimensions | 166x143mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1859.0007 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0116 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5190 | Gassiot; John Peter (1797 - 1877) | 1797 - 1877 |