Paper, 'On plane water-lines' by William John Macquorn Rankine
Reference number: PT/70/7
Date: 27 July 1863
Description
72 manuscript pages and five plates showing graphs of various neoids [water-line curves].
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On plane water-lines in two dimensions'.
Written by Rankine in Glasgow. Received by the Royal Society on 28 July 1863. Read 26 November 1863.
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 13, 1864.
- Reference number
- PT/70/7
- Earliest possible date
- 27 July 1863
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 77 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William John Macquorn Rankine, Paper, 'On plane water-lines' by William John Macquorn Rankine, 27 July 1863, PT/70/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_70_7/paper-on-plane-water-lines-by-william-john-macquorn-rankine, accessed on 21 January 2025
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March 1862 - September 1864 Reference number: PT/70
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