Illustrations and tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith
Reference number: PT/72/4
Date: 1865
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Several fold-out tables of data relating to deviation of the compass on board numerous Royal Navy ships around the world. 17 pages of manuscript and tables with two separate plates.
Subject: Engineering
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship'.
Received by the Royal Society on 9 March 1865. Read 16 March 1865.
Abstract of paper 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 14, 1865.
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- 1865
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- 19 pages
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Frederick John Owen Evans, Archibald Smith, Illustrations and tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith, 1865, PT/72/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_72_4/illustrations-and-tables-from-on-the-magnetic-character-of-the-armour-plated-ships-of-the-royal-navy-and-on-the-effect-on-the-compass-of-particular-arrangements-of-iron-in-a-ship-by-frederick-john-owen-evans-and-archibald-smith, accessed on 14 May 2025
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On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1865
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1865.0031
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Date: 31st December 1865
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1865.0005
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Referee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson, on a paper 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the royal navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith
Creator: Thomas Romney Robinson Reference number: RR/5/70
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1865
February 1864 - March 1865 Reference number: PT/72
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Dates: 1802 - 1865
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