Paper, 'Determination of the viscosity of water' by [Arnulph] Mallock

Description

Mallock writes: 'The experiments here described, which were made during April and May of the present year (1888), to determine the constant of viscosity of water, may be of some interest on account of the newness of the method employed, and also as being on rather a larger scale than other experiments which have been made with the same object. Fig. 1 gives a section of the apparatus used. A and B are two coaxial cylinders; of these A is mounted on the vertical axis E, and can be made to rotate by a belt passing over the wheel F. B is suspended by a long fine wire C, and the annular space between A and B is filled with water or any other fluid to be experimented on.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes two pages of diagrams of experimental apparatus and results.

Subject: Physics

Received 30 November 1888. Read 13 December 1888. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt].

A version of this paper was published in volume 45 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Determination of the viscosity of water'.

Reference number

PP/13/5

Earliest possible date

1888

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

9 pages

Format

Manuscript
Diagram