Paper, 'On an air engine' by James Prescott Joule
Reference number: PT/43/4
Date: 20 March 1852
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Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the air-engine'.
Written by Joule at Acton Square, Salford [Greater Manchester]. Received by the Royal Society on 13 May 1851 [1852?]. Read 19 June 1851 [1852?].
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 6, 1854.
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- PT/43/4
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- 20 March 1852
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- 17 pages
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