Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16487

    A hygrometer

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    James Ferguson (1710 - 1776, British) , Astronomer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p165
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 293mm
    width (paper): 211mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Design of a hygrometer.

    Printed in J. Ferguson, 'The Description of a New Hygrometer', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764), pp. 259-60.
    Transcription
    In ink: Tab XVI pg. 259. In pencil: Mr Mynde. If a breadth of this plate be a little too long for the Page, you may set Fig. 2 a little nearer to Fig. 1.
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    Related fellows
    James Ferguson (1710 - 1776, British) , Instrument maker
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