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Paper, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall

Reference number: PP/7/22

Date: 1885

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Thomson and Newall write: 'When a drop of ink falls into water from not too great a height, it descends through the water as a ring, in which there is evidently considerable rotation about the circular axis passing through the centres of its cross sections; as the ring travels down through the water inequalities make their appearance: more ink seems to collect in some parts of it than in others'.

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes 12 pages of figures.

Subject: Physics / Fluid dynamics

Received 28 November 1885. Read 17 December 1885.

A version of this paper was published in volume 39 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena'.

Reference number
PP/7/22
Earliest possible date
1885
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
36 pages
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Manuscript
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Joseph John Thomson

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Hugh Frank Newall

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Joseph John Thomson, Hugh Frank Newall, Paper, 'On the formation of vortex rings by drops falling into liquids, and some allied phenomena' by Joseph John Thomson and Hugh Frank Newall, 1885, PP/7/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_7_22/paper-on-the-formation-of-vortex-rings-by-drops-falling-into-liquids-and-some-allied-phenomena-by-joseph-john-thomson-and-hugh-frank-newall, accessed on 12 October 2024

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