Calculating the pressure of water in a pipe
Date
4 July 1683
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p54
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 374mm
width (page): 238mm
width (page): 238mm
Subject
Description
A figure illustrating how to calculate (and reduce to feet and inches) the pressure of water in any pipe, according to Robert Hooke, who reported it to the meeting on 4 July 1683.
This is copied from RBO/6/071.
This is copied from RBO/6/071.
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 (London: 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 (London: 1726), pp. 91-95 (figure at p. 92).
Related fellows
Robert Hooke (1635 - 1703, British) , Natural philosopher