Paper, 'An account of experiments for determining the variation in the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds, at the principal stations of the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain' by Capt Henry Kater
Reference number: PT/13/24
Date: 01 June 1819
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Subject: Physics / Mathematics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of experiments for determining the variation in the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds, at the principal stations of the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain'.
Written by Kater in London. Read 24 June 1819.
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.
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- PT/13/24
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- 01 June 1819
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- 154 pages
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- Manuscript
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Henry Kater, Paper, 'An account of experiments for determining the variation in the length of the pendulum vibrating seconds, at the principal stations of the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain' by Capt Henry Kater, 01 June 1819, PT/13/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_13_24/paper-an-account-of-experiments-for-determining-the-variation-in-the-length-of-the-pendulum-vibrating-seconds-at-the-principal-stations-of-the-trigonometrical-survey-of-great-britain-by-capt-henry-kater, accessed on 21 April 2025
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Date: 31st December 1833
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0116
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