Unpublished paper, 'On the application of the law of the conservation of energy to the determination of the magnetic meridian on board ship; when out of reach or out of sight of land' by William John Macquorn Rankine
Reference number: AP/34/19
Date: 02 April 1853
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Rankine states that, assuming that when a ship is swung completely round, so that her head bears exactly as it did at first, the magnetism of the ship, and that of the compass-needle return to their original condition, the following theorem is necessarily true: the mechanical power developed by the mutual action of the ship and of the compass-needle during a complete revolution of the ship is equal to zero.
Annotations in pencil throughout.
Subject: Physics / Marine engineering
Received 5 April 1853. Communicated by Col [Edward] Sabine.
Written by Rankine in Glasgow [Scotland].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published 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 'On the application of the law of the conservation of energy to the determination of the magnetic meridian on board ship, when out of reach or out of sight of land'.
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- AP/34/19
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- 02 April 1853
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 12 pages
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William John Macquorn Rankine, Unpublished paper, 'On the application of the law of the conservation of energy to the determination of the magnetic meridian on board ship; when out of reach or out of sight of land' by William John Macquorn Rankine, 02 April 1853, AP/34/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_34_19/unpublished-paper-on-the-application-of-the-law-of-the-conservation-of-energy-to-the-determination-of-the-magnetic-meridian-on-board-ship-when-out-of-reach-or-out-of-sight-of-land-by-william-john-macquorn-rankine, accessed on 13 December 2024
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Date: 31st December 1854
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0110
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Archived papers: volume 34, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1852-1854
1852-1854 Reference number: AP/34
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