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30 manuscript pages and three plates showing diagrams of strain on beams.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the strains in the Interior of beams'.

Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 6 November 1862. Read 11 December 1862.

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 12, 1863.

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PT/68/3
Earliest possible date
30 September 1862
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
33 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Biddell Airy

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George Biddell Airy, Paper, 'On the strains in the interior of beams' by George Biddell Airy, 30 September 1862, PT/68/3, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_68_3/paper-on-the-strains-in-the-interior-of-beams-by-george-biddell-airy, accessed on 12 September 2024

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