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Supprting data, 'On the behaviour of thermometers in a vacuum' by Benjamin Loewy

Reference number: AP/51/7

Date: 1869

Description

Two tables, one labelled 'Comparison of the thermometers with the Kew standard' and the other 'Experiments for determining the vacuum-correction of thermometers'.

Marked on front as 'Not printed'. Likely to have been submitted alongside a paper by Loewy which was published in volume 17 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the behaviour of thermometers in a vacuum'.

Subject: Physics

Reference number
AP/51/7
Earliest possible date
1869
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Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Benjamin Loewy

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Benjamin Loewy, Supprting data, 'On the behaviour of thermometers in a vacuum' by Benjamin Loewy, 1869, AP/51/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_51_7/supprting-data-on-the-behaviour-of-thermometers-in-a-vacuum-by-benjamin-loewy, accessed on 10 April 2026

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