Paper, 'Experiments on the elasticity and strength of hard and soft steel' in a letter from Thomas Tredgold to Thomas Young
Reference number: PT/17/9
Date: 16 December 1823
Description
Seven manuscript pages and one plate showing an apparatus for measuring flexure.
Subject: Metallurgy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experiments on the elasticity and strength of hard and soft steel. In a letter to Thomas Young, M.D. For. Sec. R. S. By Mr. Thomas Tredgold, Civil Engineer'.
Written by Tredgold in London. Read 25 March 1824.
Abstract of the 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 2, 1833.
- Reference number
- PT/17/9
- Earliest possible date
- 16 December 1823
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 8 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
Creator name
Thomas Tredgold
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Thomas Tredgold, Paper, 'Experiments on the elasticity and strength of hard and soft steel' in a letter from Thomas Tredgold to Thomas Young, 16 December 1823, PT/17/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_17_9/paper-experiments-on-the-elasticity-and-strength-of-hard-and-soft-steel-in-a-letter-from-thomas-tredgold-to-thomas-young, accessed on 16 May 2026
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1824
May 1823 - June 1824 Reference number: PT/17
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