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15 manuscript pages and one plate showing an apparatus used by Thomson and Joule in their experiments.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion.—Part III. On the changes of temperature experienced by bodies moving through air'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 21 June 1860.

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 10, 1860.

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PT/61/4
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1860
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Ink on paper
Page extent
16 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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James Prescott Joule

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William Thomson, James Prescott Joule, Paper, 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion' by Professor W [William] Thomson and J P [James Prescott] Joule, 1860, PT/61/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_61_4/paper-on-the-thermal-effects-of-fluids-in-motion-by-professor-w-william-thomson-and-j-p-james-prescott-joule, accessed on 06 December 2024

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    Dates: 1802-1865

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