Paper, 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines' by William John Macquorn Rankine
Reference number: PT/48/6
Date: 03 December 1853
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93 manuscript pages and six plates showing graphs of the expansive action of heat and thermodynamic engines.
Subject: Physics / Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines'.
Written by Rankine in Glasgow. Received by the Royal Society on 5 December 1853. Read 19 January 1854.
Abstract 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 6, 1854.
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- PT/48/6
- Earliest possible date
- 03 December 1853
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 99 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William John Macquorn Rankine, Paper, 'On the geometrical representation of the expansive action of heat, and the theory of thermo-dynamic engines' by William John Macquorn Rankine, 03 December 1853, PT/48/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_48_6/paper-on-the-geometrical-representation-of-the-expansive-action-of-heat-and-the-theory-of-thermo-dynamic-engines-by-william-john-macquorn-rankine, accessed on 11 February 2026
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