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Paper, 'On an element of strength in beams subjected to transverse strain, named by the author "the resistance of flexure"' by William Henry Barlow

Reference number: PT/58/8

Date: 1857

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42 manuscript pages and three plates.

Subject: Engineering / Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On an element of strength in beams subjected to transverse strain, named by the author “the resistance of flexure.” —Second paper'.

Received by the Royal Society on 12 March 1857. Read 26 March 1857.

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 8, 1857.

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PT/58/8
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1857
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Ink on paper
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45 pages
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Manuscript

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William Henry Barlow

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William Henry Barlow, Paper, 'On an element of strength in beams subjected to transverse strain, named by the author "the resistance of flexure"' by William Henry Barlow, 1857, PT/58/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_58_8/paper-on-an-element-of-strength-in-beams-subjected-to-transverse-strain-named-by-the-author-the-resistance-of-flexure-by-william-henry-barlow, accessed on 08 November 2024

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