Paper, 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies' by G B [George Biddell] Airy
Reference number: PT/59/1
Date: 08 April 1857
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Subject: Metrology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Account of the construction of the new national standard of length, and of its principal copies'.
Received by the Royal Society on 2 May 1857. Read 18 June 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/59/1
- Earliest possible date
- 08 April 1857
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- Ink on paper
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- 189 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1857
November 1856 - January 1858 Reference number: PT/59
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