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RefNoPT/14/27/2
LevelItem
TitlePlate, piezometer and cannon by unknown artist
Date7 June 1820
DescriptionPlate containing four figures showing Perkins' new piezometer and a cannon large enough to fit the piezometer.

Plates published in Philosophical Transactions as part of the paper titled 'On the compressibility of water'. The manuscript for this paper is found at PT/16/26.

Communicated by Sir Joseph Banks. Read 29 June 1820.
Extent1p
FormatDiagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk and grey watercolour on paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0136
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1820.0022
RelatedRecordPT/14/27
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8116Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist1744 - 1820
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