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Drawings, thermometrical barometer by [Francis John Hyde Wollaston]

Reference number: PT/73/6/9

Date: 1817

Description

Plate 7 showing the fully assembled instrument (figure 7) with details of components including the thermometer and a Vernier scale. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.

Subject: Geodesy

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes' by Francis John Hyde Wollaston.

Read to the Royal Society on 6 March 1817.

Reference number
PT/73/6/9
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1817
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Ink on paper
Page extent
1 page
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Drawing
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Francis John Hyde Wollaston

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Francis John Hyde Wollaston, Drawings, thermometrical barometer by [Francis John Hyde Wollaston], 1817, PT/73/6/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_73_6_9/drawings-thermometrical-barometer-by-francis-john-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 14 December 2025

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