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Unpublished paper, 'Researches in absolute mercurial thermometry' by S A Sworn

Reference number: AP/74/8

Date: 1899

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The experimental portion of this work consists of the careful comparison of six thermometers, with the object of studying the effects of capillarity, and in the second place of obtaining a comparison between thermometers made of English flint glass with those of French 'verre dur' or Jena normal glass, and therefore indirectly with the hydrogen scale.

Annotations in ink throughout.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 21 April 1899. Read 15 June 1899. Communicated by H B [Harold Baily] Dixon.

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 66 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Researches in absolute mercurial thermometry'.

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AP/74/8
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1899
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Ink on paper
Page extent
94 pages
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Typescript

Creator name

S A Sworn

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S A Sworn, Unpublished paper, 'Researches in absolute mercurial thermometry' by S A Sworn, 1899, AP/74/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_74_8/unpublished-paper-researches-in-absolute-mercurial-thermometry-by-s-a-sworn, accessed on 20 September 2024

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