Paper, 'Report of the general process adopted in calibrating and comparing the standard meteorological instruments for Kew Observatory [London]' by John Welsh
Reference number: AP/33/28
Date: 22 March 1852
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Welsh describes in detail the construction, verification, calibration and graduation of thermometers to be used at Kew Observatory.
Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments / Meteorology
Received 6 May 1852. Communicated by Colonel [Edward] Sabine.
Written by Welsh at Kew Observatory.
This paper was published in full in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Report of the general process adopted in graduating and comparing the standard meteorological instruments for the Kew observatory'.
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- 22 March 1852
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John Welsh, Paper, 'Report of the general process adopted in calibrating and comparing the standard meteorological instruments for Kew Observatory [London]' by John Welsh, 22 March 1852, AP/33/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_33_28/paper-report-of-the-general-process-adopted-in-calibrating-and-comparing-the-standard-meteorological-instruments-for-kew-observatory-london-by-john-welsh, accessed on 13 October 2024
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Report of the general process adopted in graduating and comparing the standard meteorological instruments for the Kew observatory External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0066
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Archived papers: volume 33, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1849-1852
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