Unpublished paper, 'On the relations between the elastic force of aqueous vapour, at ordinary temperatures, and its motive force in producing currents of air in vertical tubes' by W D Chowne

Description

In 1853, Chowne made a number of experiments which demonstrated that when a tube, open at both ends, was placed vertically in the undisturbed atmosphere of a closed room, there was an upward movement of the air within the tube of sufficient force to keep an anemometer of light weight in a state of constant revolution, though with a variable velocity. An abstract of the results of these experiments was printed in the Proceedings of the Society for June 1855 (see AP/36/9). In order to further investigate the immediate cause or nature of force which set the machine in motion, Chowne instituted a series of fresh experiments, and relays the results of these in his paper.

Subject: Physics / Hydraulics

Received 15 March 1860. Communicated by John Bishop.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 10 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the relations between the elastic force of aqueous vapour, at ordinary temperatures, and its motive force in producing currents of air in vertical tubes'.

Reference number

AP/43/1

Earliest possible date

11 April 1860

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

13 pages

Format

Manuscript