Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11581

    Gravimetric calorimeter

    Date
    1886
    Creator
    John Joly (1857 - 1933, Irish) , Physicist
    Object type
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (drawing): 218mm
    width (drawing): 185mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Carrier and pan details from a gravimetric calorimeter designed by John Joly for experimental verification of the method of condensation applied to the determination of specific heat.

    Illustration from the manuscript version of the paper ‘On the method of condensation in calorimetry’, by John Joly, Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.41 (1886), pp.352-371. These items were engraved as figures for plate 6, accompanying the printed paper.

    Inscribed in ink above: ‘Plate II Carrier and Pan.’ Inscribed below: ‘Proc. J. Joly (2) 1886.’

    John Joly (1857-1933) Irish geologist and physicist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1892.
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