| RefNo | AP/67/6/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations; and on a new focometer' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson |
| Date | 3 February 1891 |
| Description | Thompson presents his focometer, providing a description of the instrument and its uses.
Annotations in pencil. Includes a photograph and sketch of Thompson's focometer.
Subject: Optics / Scientific apparatus and instruments
Received 4 February 1891. Read 19 February 1891. Communicated by Professor G [George] Carey Foster.
Written by Thompson at City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury [London].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer'. |
| Extent | 35p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1890.0087 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7141 | Thompson; Silvanus Phillips (1851 - 1916); physicist and electrical engineer | 1851 - 1916 |
| NA6347 | Foster; George Carey (1835 - 1919); chemist and physicist | 1835 - 1919 |