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Diagrams, glass cylinders and resistance apparatus by unknown artist

Reference number: PT/75/8/6

Date: 1859

Description

Figures 8-19 (labelled here as figures 7-18) showing an apparatus for testing resistance of glass to external pressure and glass cylinders of varying sizes. Inscribed recto and verso with publication and plate details. On verso is a printed sheet of the list of candidates recommended by the Council for election to the Royal Society, dated 5 May 1859 at Burlington House [London]. Not signed. The manuscript for this paper is wanting.

Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'On the resistance of glass globes and cylinders to collapse from external pressure; and on the tensile and compressive strength of various kinds of glass' by William Fairbairn and Thomas Tate.

Received by the Royal Society on 3 May 1859. Read 12 May 1859.

Reference number
PT/75/8/6
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1859
Physical description
Ink on paper, mounted on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Diagram

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William Fairbairn

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William Fairbairn, Diagrams, glass cylinders and resistance apparatus by unknown artist, 1859, PT/75/8/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_75_8_6/diagrams-glass-cylinders-and-resistance-apparatus-by-unknown-artist, accessed on 18 May 2025

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