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Thompson presents his focometer, providing a description of the instrument and its uses.

Annotations in pencil. Includes a photograph and sketch of Thompson's focometer.

Subject: Optics / Scientific apparatus and instruments

Received 4 February 1891. Read 19 February 1891. Communicated by Professor G [George] Carey Foster.

Written by Thompson at City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury [London].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 49 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations, and on a new focometer'.

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AP/67/6
Earliest possible date
1891
Physical description
Inkand graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
37 pages
Format
Manuscript
Drawing
Photograph

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Unpublished paper, 'On the focometry of lenses and lens-combinations; and on a new focometer' by Silvanus P [Phillips] Thompson, 1891, AP/67/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_67_6/unpublished-paper-on-the-focometry-of-lenses-and-lens-combinations-and-on-a-new-focometer-by-silvanus-p-phillips-thompson, accessed on 03 October 2024

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