Plate, diagram of the pressure of the cylinder on point of contact with plane Henry Moseley Diagram showing the pressure of a cylinder on the point of contact with the plane on which it is rolling. Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the rolling motion of a cylinder'. Written by Moseley in Wandsworth [London]. Received by the Royal Society on 6 March 1851. Read 13 March 1851. 28 February 1851