| RefNo | AP/17/13 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'An account of a second series of experiments on the resistance of fluids to bodies passing through them' by James Walker |
| Date | May 1833 |
| Description | Walker refers to an earlier paper he had published in Philosophical Transactions on the resistance of fluids. He describes undertaking another set of experiments with a small boat or punt in the East India Docks [London] and shares his results and observations. Includes two pages of technical drawings of the boat.
Subject: Physics / Fluid mechanics
Received 31 May 1833 by John George Children
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a second series of experiments on the resistance of fluids to bodies passing through them'. |
| Extent | 35p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1828.0003 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1830.0117 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/73/13/8 |
| RR/1/255 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5839 | Walker; James (1781 - 1862) | 1781 - 1862 |
| NA3175 | Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist | 1777 - 1852 |