| RefNo | PT/75/8/6 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Diagrams, glass cylinders and resistance apparatus by unknown artist |
| Date | [1859] |
| Description | Figures 8-19 (labelled here as figures 7-18) showing an apparatus for testing resistance of glass to external pressure and glass cylinders of varying sizes. Inscribed recto and verso with publication and plate details. On verso is a printed sheet of the list of candidates recommended by the Council for election to the Royal Society, dated 5 May 1859 at Burlington House [London]. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the resistance of glass globes and cylinders to collapse from external pressure; and on the tensile and compressive strength of various kinds of glass' by William Fairbairn and Thomas Tate.
Received by the Royal Society on 3 May 1859. Read 12 May 1859. |
| Extent | 2p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper, mounted on paper |
| Dimensions | 332x208mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1859.0012 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0005 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6039 | Fairbairn; Sir; William (1789 - 1874) | 1789 - 1874 |