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Unpublished paper, regarding a self-registering thermometer by Mansfield Harrison

Reference number: AP/27/18

Date: 1845

Description

Harrison shares a description of a self-registering thermometer, which he believes acts with 'great promptness and regularity'.

This is followed by a detailed figure of the thermometer with elements labelled and two graphs of data recorded by the thermometer.

Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments

Received 2 April 1845. Read 17 April 1845. Communicated by James Alderson.

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AP/27/18
Earliest possible date
1845
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Ink on paper
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8 pages
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Drawing
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Creator name

Mansfield Harrison

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Mansfield Harrison, Unpublished paper, regarding a self-registering thermometer by Mansfield Harrison, 1845, AP/27/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_27_18/unpublished-paper-regarding-a-self-registering-thermometer-by-mansfield-harrison, accessed on 18 September 2024

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