Unpublished paper, 'On a new law of combustion' by Charles J B [James Blasius] Williams

Description

Williams sets out to prove that 'most combustible bodies undergo a kind of combustion attended with light and heat, at a temperature considerably below that usually assigned as their igniting point'. Annotations in pencil throughout.

Subject: Thermochemistry

Received 6 March 1834. Communicated by W G [William George] Maton.

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 'On a new law of combustion'.

Reference number

AP/18/18

Earliest possible date

March 1834

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

18 pages

Format

Manuscript