RefNo | AP/7/2/1 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'New method proposed for measuring a ship's rate of sailing' by J [James] Burney |
Date | [1809] |
Description | Burney discusses a method of calculating a ship's rate of sailing using the quantity of pull on a ship's tow line over a set period of time. Minor corrections and additions appear in ink throughout.
Subject: Physics / Navigation
Read to the Royal Society on 16 February 1809. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedRecord | AP/7/2 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA3739 | Burney; James (1750 - 1821) | 1750 - 1821 |