Diagram, vacuum tube and carbonic acid generator by [John Peter Gassiot?]
Reference number: PT/75/8/2
Date: 1858
Description
Compressed version of plate 9, figure 8 (labelled here as figure 1) showing a vacuum tube in which platinum wires are hermetically sealed, attached to a carbonic acid generator. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Part of a graphite illustration of a vacuum tube visible verso. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.
Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the stratifications in electrical discharges, as observed in torricellian and other vacua. —Second communication' by John Peter Gassiot.
Received by the Royal Society on 9 December 1858. Read 13 January 1859.
- Reference number
- PT/75/8/2
- Earliest possible date
- 1858
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Diagram
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VII. On the stratifications in electrical discharges, as observed in torricellian and other vacua. —Second communication External link, opens in new tab.
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1840-1859
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Illustrations produced for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 149
Reference number: PT/75/8
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