Rule for calculating the pressure of water in a pipe
Date
4 July 1683
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p71
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 365mm
width (page): 230mm
width (page): 230mm
Subject
Description
A figure illustrating how to calculate (and reduce to feet and inches) the pressure of the water in any pipe, according to Robert Hooke, who reported it to the meeting on 4 July 1683.
Object history
At the meeting of the Royal Society on 4 July 1683, ‘Mr. Hooke shewed the rule for calculating the pressure of water in a pipe. He shewed likewise a way to find the true comparative expansion of any metal, when melted’ (Birch 4:213). Both papers were registered without an explicit order.
The text and the figure (direction rotated) were published in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations, ed. by W. Derham (1726), pp. 91-95 (figure at p. 92).
The text and the figure (direction rotated) were published in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations, ed. by W. Derham (1726), pp. 91-95 (figure at p. 92).
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher
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