| RefNo | PT/14/26 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the compressibility of water' by Jacob Perkins |
| Creator | Perkins; Jacob (1766-1849); American inventor; engineer; physicist |
| Date | 6 June 1820 |
| Description | Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the compressibility of water'.
Written by Perkins at 29 Austin Friars [London]. Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 29 June 1820.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0136 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0022 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/14/27 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |