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Paper, 'Mémoire sur les limites de la pression dans les machines travaillant à la détente du maximum d'effet; et sur l'influence des espaces libres dans les machines à un seul cylindre' [Paper on thermodynamics and single-cylinder engines] by Mahistre

Reference number: AP/40/10

Date: 10 October 1857

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Mahistre writes on pressure and mechanical work in relation to single-cylinder engines. Annotations in pencil.

Subject: Mathematics / Physics / Thermodynamics

Received 12 October 1857. Communicated by [George Gabriel] Stokes.

A version of this paper was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Mémoire sur les limites de la pression dans les machines travaillant à la détente du maximum d'effet; et sur l'influence des espaces libres dans les machines à un seul cylindre'.

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AP/40/10
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10 October 1857
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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10 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, 'Mémoire sur les limites de la pression dans les machines travaillant à la détente du maximum d'effet; et sur l'influence des espaces libres dans les machines à un seul cylindre' [Paper on thermodynamics and single-cylinder engines] by Mahistre, 10 October 1857, AP/40/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_40_10/paper-mémoire-sur-les-limites-de-la-pression-dans-les-machines-travaillant-à-la-détente-du-maximum-deffet-et-sur-linfluence-des-espaces-libres-dans-les-machines-à-un-seul-cylindre-paper-on-thermodynamics-and-single-cylinder-engines-by-mahistre, accessed on 21 January 2025

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