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Table, 'Resistance of tubes to internal pressure' by [William Fairbairn?]

Reference number: PT/75/7/41

Date: 1858

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Table 11 illustrating the results of Fairbairn's experiments on iron tubes and their ability to resist internal pressure, providing data on the diameter, length, thickness of plates, and pressure of collapse for each of the tubes. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics / Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the resistance of tubes to collapse' by William Fairbairn.

Received by the Royal Society on 21 April 1858. Read 20 May 1858.

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PT/75/7/41
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1858
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Ink and watercolour on paper
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1 page
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Diagram

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William Fairbairn

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William Fairbairn, Table, 'Resistance of tubes to internal pressure' by [William Fairbairn?], 1858, PT/75/7/41, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_7_41/table-resistance-of-tubes-to-internal-pressure-by-william-fairbairn, accessed on 20 July 2025

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