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Unpublished paper, 'On the use of highly attenuated wires for platinum thermometers' by J J Manley

Reference number: AP/79/12

Date: 1916

Description

Manley describes the form of the thermometer and its accessory apparatus before exploring variations in the temperature of the resistance coils, heating effects produced by the current, thermo-electric current effects and the temperature of steam and sulphur vapour jackets.

Includes table of contents.

Subject: Physics

Received 4 December 1916. Not read. Communicated by E B [Edwin Bailey] Elliott.

A version of this paper was published by Manley in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science: Manley, J J. 'On the insulation of highly attenuated wires in platinum resistance thermometers.' The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, volume 43, number 253 (1922), pp. 95-96.

Reference number
AP/79/12
Earliest possible date
1916
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
79 pages
Format
Typescript

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Unpublished paper, 'On the use of highly attenuated wires for platinum thermometers' by J J Manley, 1916, AP/79/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_79_12/unpublished-paper-on-the-use-of-highly-attenuated-wires-for-platinum-thermometers-by-j-j-manley, accessed on 15 October 2024

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