Paper, 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Reference number: PT/54/5
Date: 1855
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Refers to the Harton Colliery in County Durham, England. 128 manuscript pages and two plates.
Subject: Geodesy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of pendulum experiments undertaken in the Harton Colliery, for the purpose of determining the mean density of the earth'.
Received by the Royal Society on 26 December 1855. Read 24 and 31 January 1856.
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 8, 1857.
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- 1855
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- 130 pages
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1856
May 1855 - February 1856 Reference number: PT/54
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