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Diagram, 'Elevation of the apparatus for trying the friction of water' by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/73/14/4

Date: 1831

Description

Plate 12, showing an apparatus employed by Harris to study the resistance of solids moving in static fluids, fluids moving over solids, and solids revolving in static fluids. Inscribed with publication, plate details, and a scale. Not signed.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the friction and resistance of fluids' by George Rennie.

Read to the Royal Society on 16 June 1831.

Reference number
PT/73/14/4
Earliest possible date
1831
Physical description
Watercolour and ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
Format
Diagram

Creator name

George Rennie

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George Rennie, Diagram, 'Elevation of the apparatus for trying the friction of water' by unknown artist, 1831, PT/73/14/4, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_14_4/diagram-elevation-of-the-apparatus-for-trying-the-friction-of-water-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 12 December 2025

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