Paper, 'On the magnetism of iron ships, and its accordance with theory, as determined in recent experiments' by William Scoresby
Reference number: AP/37/19
Date: 21 June 1855
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Scoresby shares details of his experiments and investigations into the 'Elba', an iron ship of 200 feet in length, built on the Tyne [England].
Subject: Magnetism / Marine engineering
Received 21 June 1855.
This paper was published in full in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the magnetism of iron ships, and its accordance with theory, as determined externally, in recent experiments'.
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- AP/37/19
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- 21 June 1855
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- 13 pages
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Date: 31st December 1856
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0098
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Archived papers: volume 37, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1853-1855
1853-1855 Reference number: AP/37
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