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Paper, 'Experimental researches into the strength of pillars of cast iron, and other materials' by Eaton Hodgkinson

Reference number: PT/24/1

Date: 1840

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174 manuscript pages including one figure showing a curving cast iron bar. Includes several fold-out tables.

Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Experimental researches on the strength of pillars of cast iron, and other materials'.

Communicated by Peter Barlow. Received by the Royal Society on 22 April 1840. Read 14 May 1840.

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 4, 1843.

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PT/24/1
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1840
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Ink on paper
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174 pages
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Manuscript

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Eaton Hodgkinson

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Eaton Hodgkinson, Paper, 'Experimental researches into the strength of pillars of cast iron, and other materials' by Eaton Hodgkinson, 1840, PT/24/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_24_1/paper-experimental-researches-into-the-strength-of-pillars-of-cast-iron-and-other-materials-by-eaton-hodgkinson, accessed on 17 January 2025

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