Paper, 'Note on the specific heats of gases' by Wm [William] Thomson [Baron Kelvin]
Reference number: PT/43/6
Date: 19 February 1852
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Published as part of paper by James Prescott Joule (found at PT/43/4) as the second part of a section titled 'Additional note on the preceding paper'. First part of the additional notes by Thomson found at PT/43/5.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the air-engine'.
Written by Thomson at Glasgow College. Received by the Royal Society on 23 March 1852.
Abstract of paper 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/43/6
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- 19 February 1852
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- 4 pages
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William Thomson, Paper, 'Note on the specific heats of gases' by Wm [William] Thomson [Baron Kelvin], 19 February 1852, PT/43/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_43_6/paper-note-on-the-specific-heats-of-gases-by-wm-william-thomson-baron-kelvin, accessed on 13 May 2026
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1852
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