| RefNo | PT/17/9/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Manuscript, 'Experiments on the elasticity and strength of hard and soft steel' in a letter from Thomas Tredgold to Thomas Young |
| Creator | Tredgold; Thomas (17881829); English engineer |
| Date | 16 December 1823 |
| Description | Includes manuscript annotations by John Frederick William Herschel.
Subject: Metallurgy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments on the elasticity and strength of hard and soft steel. In a letter to Thomas Young, M.D. For. Sec. R. S. By Mr. Thomas Tredgold, Civil Engineer'.
Written by Tredgold in London. Read 25 March 1824.
Abstract of the paper 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 | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0240 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1824.0021 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/17/9 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |