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Diagrams, apparatuses used in experiments on thermodynamic properties of solids by [James Prescott Joule?]

Reference number: PT/75/8/1

Date: 1858

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Figures 1-7 showing details of a spring compression apparatus, a thermo-multiplier, and a stretching weight apparatus used in Joule's experiments on the thermodynamic properties of solids. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Figures drawn separately and pasted onto backing sheet. A series of struck-out watercolour drawings appearing to show zoological figures visible verso. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On some thermo-dynamic properties of solids' by James Prescott Joule.

Received by the Royal Society on 22 April 1858. Read 10 June 1858.

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PT/75/8/1
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1858
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Ink on paper, mounted on paper
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2 pages
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Diagram

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James Prescott Joule

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James Prescott Joule, Diagrams, apparatuses used in experiments on thermodynamic properties of solids by [James Prescott Joule?], 1858, PT/75/8/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_1/diagrams-apparatuses-used-in-experiments-on-thermodynamic-properties-of-solids-by-james-prescott-joule, accessed on 18 April 2026

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