Unpublished paper, 'Description of a chronometer compass' by Ralph Reeder
Reference number: AP/39/17
Date: 1857
Description
Reeder describes an instrument which is a combination of the universal dial and chronometer, and is intended to show the errors of the magnetic needle, both at sea and on land, and, in clear weather, to perform in place of the needle.
Subject: Engineering / Magnetism
Received 26 February 1857. Read 12 March 1857. Communicated by Captain [John] Washington.
Written by Reeder at 36 High Holborn, London.
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Description of a chronometer compass'.
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- AP/39/17
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- 1857
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- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Ralph Reeder
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Ralph Reeder, Unpublished paper, 'Description of a chronometer compass' by Ralph Reeder, 1857, AP/39/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_17/unpublished-paper-description-of-a-chronometer-compass-by-ralph-reeder, accessed on 12 November 2024
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Date: 31st December 1857
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1856.0105
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Archived papers: volume 39, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1856-1857
1856-1857 Reference number: AP/39
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John Washington
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