Unpublished paper, 'An account of a second series of experiments on the resistance of fluids to bodies passing through them' by James Walker
Reference number: AP/17/13
Date: May 1833
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Walker refers to an earlier paper he had published in Philosophical Transactions on the resistance of fluids. He describes undertaking another set of experiments with a small boat or punt in the East India Docks [London] and shares his results and observations. Includes two pages of technical drawings of the boat.
Subject: Physics / Fluid mechanics
Received 31 May 1833 by John George Children
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 3 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a second series of experiments on the resistance of fluids to bodies passing through them'.
- Reference number
- AP/17/13
- Earliest possible date
- May 1833
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 35 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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James Walker, Unpublished paper, 'An account of a second series of experiments on the resistance of fluids to bodies passing through them' by James Walker, May 1833, AP/17/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_17_13/unpublished-paper-an-account-of-a-second-series-of-experiments-on-the-resistance-of-fluids-to-bodies-passing-through-them-by-james-walker, accessed on 09 December 2025
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Archived papers: volume 17, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1832-1833
1833 Reference number: AP/17
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