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Authorised form of namePetavel; Sir; Joseph Ernest (1873 - 1936); engineer and physicist
Dates1873 - 1936
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth14 August 1873
Place of deathBushy House, Teddington, England
Date of death31/03/1936
Dates and placesBurial:
Highgate Cemetery, London, England
Occupationengineer and physicist
Research fieldMechanics
Engineering
Physics
ActivityEducation:
Lausanne, Geneva; University College, London (1893); Owens College, Manchester (1900)
Career:
Beyer chair of engineering (1868-1905); Lecturer in mechanics at the University of Manchester combined with the post of director of the Whitworth Laboratories at the University of Manchester (1905); joined the general board of the National Physical Laboratory (1911-1916); served on the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , becoming chairman (1917); Director of the National Physical Laboratory (1919-1936).
Honours:
KBE 1920
Memberships:
Institution of Civil Engineers
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1907
Age at election34
ProposerRichard Threlfall
George Carey Foster
Harold Baily Dixon
Richard Tetley Glazebrook
Andrew Noble
Arthur Schuster
RelationshipsParents: Emmanuel Petavel DD and Susanna, daughter of William Olliff, of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.
General contextDeveloped of the ‘Petavel gauge’ for measuring variation in pressure caused by the explosion of gases.
His directorship of the National Physical Laboratory saw it grow steadily, with facilities constructed for the study of physics, high-tension electricity, acoustics, and aeronautics.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 183-203, plate, by Robert Robertson
References:
Russell Moseley, 'Government Science and the Royal Society: The Control of the National Physical Laboratory in the Inter-War Years' in NR 1980 vol 35 pp 167-193
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/42151897148224070875
Royal Society codeNA8267
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1907/13Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernest: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/525/5/2/48Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57,58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London19 August 1915
IM/003529Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernestnd
IM/003530Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernestnd
MS/525/5/3/31Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London16 November 1916
MS/525/6/6/1/27'Notes re anchor specifications' [by Joseph Ernest Petavel?] January 1915
MS/525/5/2/31Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London1 June 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/28'Creeper - draft no 2': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel7 December 1914
MS/525/6/4/2Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, 9 Brighton Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk5 December 1914
MS/525/5/2/12Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London24 March 1915
MS/525/5/2/37Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London1 July 1915
MS/525/5/3/1Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dr Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London22 January 1916
MS/525/6/11/8Engineering sketch for a vessel driven by centrifugal pumps, by Joseph Ernest Petavel27 January 1916
MS/525/5/5/13Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretay, Royal Society, Burlington House, London13 February 1919
MS/525/6/6/1/26Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London20 January 1915
MS/525/6/8/10Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57 and 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London22 May 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/10'Re. Tidal mine', note by Joseph Ernest Petavel [10 February 1915]
MS/525/6/6/2/6'Tidal mine', note by Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester5 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/1Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Bertram Hopkinson, Admiralty, London1 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/9Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57-58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London10 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/1/29'Creeper - draft no 4': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/31[Creeping mine] 'Draft no 6': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Andrew Robertson15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/1/30[Creeping mine] 'Draft no 5': engineering drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel and Andrew Robertson15 December 1914
MS/525/6/6/2/5Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to [Dugald] Clerk5 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/11'Further suggestions for tidal mine': engineering drawing by James Ernest Petavel20 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/18Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, Lukyns, Ewhurst, Surrey 5 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/25'Tidal mines': drawing by Joseph Ernest Petavel, C H Lander and Andrew Robertson11 March 1915
MS/525/6/6/2/13Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London24 February 1915
MS/525/6/6/3/13Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields 23 June 1915
MS/525/6/8/1Joseph Ernest Petavel, The Victoria University of Manchester, to the Secretary of the Engineering Subcommittee of the Royal Society War Committee, Burlington House, London30 January 1915
MS/525/6/11/7'Notes on the propulsion of vessels by waterjets', by Joseph Ernest Petavel27 January 1916
IM/003531Petavel, Sir Joseph Ernestnd
NLB/36/639Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 November 1907
RR/15/234Second referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel18 February 1901
RR/15/235Referee's report by John Joly, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest PetavelMarch 1901
RR/17/421Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The stresses producing elastic breakdown in mild steel' by W Mason22 January 1910
RR/16/361Referee's report by Robert John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The pressure of explosions: experiments on solid and gaseous explosives' by Joseph Ernest Petavel19 September 1905
RR/17/187Committee report to Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel30 July 1907
NLB/17/128Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society]22 July 1898
NLB/17/61Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society]8 July 1898
NLB/19/410Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney, Rathmore Lodge, Bolton Gardens South, Earl's Court, S.W. 25 September 1899
NLB/19/578Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], 34 Abingdon Mansions, Kensington, W.3 November 1899
NLB/23/2/55Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Granville House, Anson Road, Victoria Park, Manchester26 March 1901
NLB/33/14Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The Victoria University, Manchester15 June 1906
NLB/32/206Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, University, Manchester26 January 1906
NLB/35/592Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society, University, Manchester17 June 1907
NLB/35/697Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons5 July 1907
MC/32/198Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, London2 January 1917
NLB/37/448Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to A Stanley Fose, The Cotton Powder Co Ltd, Faversham20 March 1908
NLB/37/178Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS8 February 1908
NLB/43/502Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society30 January 1911
NLB/42/127Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel7 April 1910
NLB/41/198Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society29 October 1909
NLB/41/649Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1910
NLB/44/464Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS14 July 1911
NLB/43/326Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society10 December 1910
NLB/44/441Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [Joseph] E [Ernest] Petavel FRS 11 July 1911
NLB/43/681Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society9 March 1911
MC/20/277Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly16 August 1905
NLB/60/101Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS10 December 1920
NLB/48/15Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph Ernest Petavel, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1913
NLB/58/337Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS22 April 1920
NLB/61/493Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS12 July 1921
NLB/64/7Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS19 January 1923
NLB/58/400Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS30 April 1920
NLB/58/128Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS17 March 1920
NLB/55/79Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS27 November 1917
NLB/69/164Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Petavel, K.B.E, FRS22 January 1926
NLB/59/467Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS5 October 1920
NLB/64/664Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel FRS29 May1923
NLB/59/856Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS22 November 1920
NLB/59/835Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS19 November 1920
RR/14/84Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavel7 June 1898
RR/45/34Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The combustion of colloidal propellants' by A D Crow and W E Grimshaw[August 1931]
RR/24/44Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Internal ballistics' by Albert George Hadcock29 November 1917
RR/18/174Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'Experimental work on a new standard of light' by W A Harwood and Joseph Ernest PetavelJanuary 1911
NLB/60/8Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS2 December 1920
RR/14/224Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavelnd [October 1899]
RR/14/223Referee's report by William de Wiveleslie Abney, on a paper 'An experimental research on some standards of light' by Joseph Ernest Petavel25 September 1899
RR/47/131Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Further history of a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and Alfred John DawsonFebruary 1932
NLB/62/189Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS21 December 1921
NLB/61/79Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS5 May 1921
NLB/61/260Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS9 June 1921
RR/17/183Referee's report by Richard Threlfall, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel[February 1907]
RR/17/185Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel4 June 1907
NLB/62/135Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS9 December 1921
NLB/61/283Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS16 June 1921
NLB/61/273Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS13 June 1921
NLB/61/902Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS10 November 1921
NLB/62/54Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS24 November 1921
NLB/62/161Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee, Air Ministry, Kingsway, W.C.2.13 December 1921
RR/56/13Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Ship waves: The relative efficiency of bow and stern' by Thomas Henry Havelock[January 1935]
NLB/62/495Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS23 February 1922
NLB/64/52Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Air Conference Committee; Air Ministry, Kingsway23 January 1923
NLB/63/541Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS03 November 1922
NLB/64/67Copy letter from an unknown correspondent; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS26 January 1923
NLB/57/804Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor JE [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS9 February 1920
NLB/57/705Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor J. E. [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS23 January 1920
NLB/64/78Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS 29 January 1923
NLB/63/186Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS11 July 1922
NLB/64/80Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS30 January 1923
NLB/57/122Copy letter from Sir Joseph John Thomson, President of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Research Department25 July 1919
NLB/57/267Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director, National Physical Laboratory30 September 1919
NLB/57/754Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sir Joseph Ernest] Petavel, FRS31 January 1920
NLB/57/806Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, KCB12 February 1920
NLB/64/548Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS03 May 1923
NLB/64/613Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS11 May 1923
NLB/64/691Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel FRS.4 June 1923
NLB/65/448Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS2 November 1923
NLB/65/181Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS11 September 1923
NLB/65/177Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS8 September 1923
NLB/64/667Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Robert Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS29 May 1923
NLB/65/680Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS6 December 1923
NLB/64/626Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk FRS16 May 1923
NLB/64/849Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director [Joseph Ernest Petavel, FRS] of the National Physical Laboratory29 June 1923
NLB/65/123Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS4 August 1923
NLB/64/376Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS23 March 1923
NLB/66/136Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS.28 February 1924
NLB/66/467Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS16 May 1924
NLB/66/685Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS19 June 1924
NLB/69/286Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E, FRS22 February 1926
NLB/66/734Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of] the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS30 June 1924
RR/29/19Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Experiments with the Hopkinson pressure bar' by J W Landon and H QuinneyMay 1923
NLB/69/206Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., FRS29 January 1926
NLB/68/688Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, FRS14 October 1925
NLB/70/558Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, KBE, FRS18 May 1927
NLB/72/9Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, KBE, FRS18 January 1929
NLB/71/924Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph Petavel, K.B.E., FRS7 December 1928
CD/62/21Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Director of the National Physical Laboratory; to the Secretary of the Royal Society20 June 1924
NLB/66/38Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 February 1924
NLB/66/686Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS19 June 1924
RR/29/44Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Calorimetry of high explosives' by Robert Robertson and William Edward GarnerMay 1923
MS/525/6/6/2/24Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Dugald Clerk, 57, 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London11 March 1915
RR/15/233Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures. Part IV. High pressure gases' by Joseph Ernest Petavel17 February 1901
NLB/54/149Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Dugald Clerk, Chairman of the Applied Sciences Committee and FRS19 February 1917
RR/17/186Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson to Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel2 July 1907
NLB/66/610Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS5 June 1924
NLB/64/677Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh FRS31 May 1923
NLB/62/148Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Joseph [Ernest] Petavel, FRS9 December 1921
RR/17/184Referee's report by Charles Thomas Heycock, on a paper 'Electric furnace reactions under high gaseous pressures' by R S Hutton and Joseph Ernest Petavel[May 1907]
NLB/66/506Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS20 May 1924
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
RR/14/85Referee's report by Ernest Howard Griffiths, on a paper 'On the heat dissipated by a platinum surface at high temperatures' by Joseph Ernest Petavelnd [June 1898]
RR/28/109Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'The rate of heat transmission from the working fluid in an internal combustion engine' by A H Gibson[March 1923]
RR/20/69Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram Hopkinson4 November 1913
RR/24/34Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A graphical method of drawing trajectories for high-angle fire' by William Ernest Dalby17 February 1917
MC/23/350Letter from Editor, The Chemical Trade Journal, to [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, Manchester University, Manchester 29 January 1908
MC/23/351Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University of Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London12 February 1908
MC/23/349Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University of Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London30 January 1908
MC/21Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1906
MC/20/278Letter from Joseph Ernest Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly21 November 1905
P/0254Portrait of Petavel, Joseph Ernest1954
MC/20Volume 20 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1905
MC/21/498Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to Robert [William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly29 January 1906
MC/22/317Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Sercetaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London7 May 1907
MC/22/318Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London12 June 1907
MC/22/319Letter from [Joseph Ernest] Petavel, The University, Manchester, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, London22 November 1907
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
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