Reference number | PT/72/4/3 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, position of compasses in profiles of ships by unknown artist |
Date | [1865] |
Description | Plate XI containing seven diagrams showing the position of compasses in the profile of several ships. The diagrams were based off of the following Royal Navy ships: Warrior, Black Prince, Achilles, Defence, Resistance, Hector, Valiant, Royal Oak, Prince Consort Caledonia, Ocean, Enterprise, and Royal Sovereign.
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. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Diagram |
Physical description | Ink diagrams on paper |
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 |
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 |