Unpublished paper, 'The induction of the explosive wave and an altered gaseous condition in an explosive gaseous mixture by a vibratory movement' by Lewis Thompson Wright

Description

Wright refers to the conclusions of Berthelot and Vieille that the phenomenon of the explosive wave is quite distinct from that of ordinary combustion, each being marked by well-defined limits called by them the régime of detonation and combustion respectively. The transition from the one to the other is accompanied by violent vibratory movements. Mallard and Le Chatelier separate the combustion of an explosive mixture inflamed at the open end of a tube, closed at the other, into four different and succeeding phases: Uniform propagation of flame; a vibratory movement; followed in some cases by the explosive wave of Berthelot and Vieille; and spontaneous extinction of flame.

Includes three pages of drawings of flames.

Subject: Thermochemistry

Received 13 June 1887. Read 16 June 1887. Communicated by [William] Odling.

Written by Wright in Nottingham [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 42 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the induction of the explosive wave and an altered gaseous condition in an explosive gaseous mixture by a vibratory movement'.

Reference number

AP/64/15

Earliest possible date

1887

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Paint on waxed woven textile

Page extent

45 pages

Format

Manuscript
Drawing