Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8647
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Thermometrical barometer
Date
1817
Creator
Francis John Hyde Wollaston (1762 - 1823, British) , Natural philosopher
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 255mm
width (drawing): 201mm
width (drawing): 201mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Plate 7 from the paper "Description of a thermometrical barometer for measuring altitudes" by Francis John Hyde Wollaston, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.107 (1817), pp.183-196. The figures show the fully assembled instrument (figure 7) with details of components including the thermometer and a Vernier scale. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso.
Object history
An illustration produced for publication in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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