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Authorised form of nameGravatt; William (1806 - 1866)
Dates1806 - 1866
Date of birth14 July 1806
Date of death30 May 1866
OccupationCivil engineer
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/02/1832
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1867-1868 vol 16 pp xvi-xvii
Royal Society codeNA6014
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1832/03Gravatt, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/001743Gravatt, Williamnd
RR/3/123Referee's report by Arthur Cayley, on a paper 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt20 May 1856
RR/3/124Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt1856
MS/843/2Letter from William Gravatt, 15 Park Street, Westminster, to Edward Sabine 13 November 1854
AP/38/18/7Unpublished letter, regarding 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' from William Gravatt to [Joseph Bancroft] Reade6 March 1856
AP/38/18/2Unpublished figure, rotating cylinder by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18/4Unpublished figures, rotatory motion by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18/3Unpublished figure, rotating disc by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18Unpublished paper, 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Elementary considerations on the subject of rotatory motion' by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18/6Unpublished figures, rotatory motion by William Gravatt1856
AP/38/18/5Unpublished figure, motion of a pendulum by William Gravatt1856
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