Reference number | PT/72/4 |
Level | File |
Title | Illustrations and tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith |
Date | [1865] |
Description | Several fold-out tables of data relating to deviation of the compass on board numerous Royal Navy ships around the world. 17 pages of manuscript and tables with two separate plates.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship'.
Received by the Royal Society on 9 March 1865. Read 16 March 1865.
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 14, 1865. |
Extent | 19p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Ink on paper |
Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1865.0031 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1865.0005 |
Related records in the catalogue | RR/5/70 |
PT/72/4/1 |
PT/72/4/2 |
PT/72/4/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA2166 | Evans; Sir; Frederick John Owen (1815 - 1885) | 1815 - 1885 |
NA1486 | Smith; Archibald (1813 - 1872) | 1813 - 1872 |