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RefNoPT/75/8/3
LevelItem
TitleDiagrams, vacuum tube, carbonic acid generator, and glass vessels by [John Peter Gassiot?]
Date[1858]
DescriptionPlate 9, figures 8, 10, and 12-13 (labelled here as 8, 11, and 13-14) showing a vacuum tube, carbonic acid generator, and glass vessels used in Gassiot's experiments on electrical discharges. Inscribed recto and verso with publication and plate details. Graphite inscription verso reads 'Mr Basire'. 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.
Extent2p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionGraphite on paper
Dimensions402x386mm [irregular]
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1859.0007
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1857.0116
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA5190Gassiot; John Peter (1797 - 1877)1797 - 1877
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