Paper, 'Account of experiments made on the strength of materials' by George Rennie in a letter to Thomas Young
Reference number: PT/12/7
Date: 03 June 1817
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21 manuscript pages and two plates showing the plan and end of the levers and nippers used in experiments.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of experiments made on the strength of materials. By George Rennie, jun. Esq. In a letter to Thomas Young, M.D. For. Sec. R. S'.
Written by Rennie in London. Read 12 February 1818.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833.
- Reference number
- PT/12/7
- Earliest possible date
- 03 June 1817
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 23 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1818
January 1817 - June 1818 Reference number: PT/12
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