| RefNo | PT/60/12/4 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Plate, 'Apparatus for ascertaining the density of steam, at pressures below that of the atmosphere' by [William] Fairbairn |
| Date | [1860] |
| Description | Figures 1-8 (published as Plate VIII) showing various details of the apparatus used by Fairbairn and Tate to experiment on the density of steam below atmospheric pressure.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The Bakerian lecture - Experimental researches to determine the density of steam at different temperatures, and to determine the law of expansion of superheated steam'.
Received by the Royal Society on 23 March 1860. Read 10 May 1860. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Diagram |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and watercolour on paper mounted on canvas |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1859.0088 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1860.0013 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/4/89 |
| RR/4/90 |
| RR/4/92 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6039 | Fairbairn; Sir; William (1789 - 1874) | 1789 - 1874 |