| RefNo | PT/43/5 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'Synthetical investigation of the duty of a perfect thermo-dynamic engine founded on the expansions and condensations of a fluid for which the gaseous laws hold, and the ratio (K) of the specific heat under constant pressure to the specific heat in constant volume is constant: and modification of the result by the assumption of Mayer's hypothesis' by Wm [William] Thomson |
| Date | 16 February 1852 |
| Description | Published as part of paper by James Prescott Joule (found at PT/43/4) as the first part of a section titled 'Additional note on the preceding paper'.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the air-engine'.
Written by Thomson at Glasgow College. Received by the Royal Society on 23 March 1852.
Abstract of 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 6, 1854. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0029 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1852.0006 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/43/4 |
| PT/43/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |