"Thermometers for Particular Uses" by Lord Charles Cavendish - 1758
It appears that scientific investigation often required special tools to exhibit the data needed for the study. This paper, A Description of Some Thermometers for Particular Uses, by the Right Honourable the Lord Charles Cavendish, V. P. R. S., describes a thermometer that can simultaneously measure both the highest and lowest temperatures to which the thermometer has been exposed during any single time period. The paper, having been read before the Royal Society on June 30, 1757, was published in 1758 in London in Volume 50, Part 1, For the Year 1757 of the Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
The paper, which has been disbound from the Transactions, measures approximately 6 x 8 1/2 inches and contains 11 pages of text plus one fold-out plate to describe, illustrate, and discuss how the thermometer would function. The pages are tanned, but the text and illustrations are clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is good/very good.
The basic operating principles of the thermometer are described on the first page of the paper, which is included as an illustration accompanying this description. The other illustrations included with this description are the fold-out plate (with its four figures) and a typical page of text.
Lord Charles Cavendish F.R.S. (17 March 1704 – 28 April 1783) was a British nobleman and Whig politician. In 1757 the Royal Society (of which he was vice-president) awarded him the Copley Medal for his work in the development of thermometers which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures they had reached. Charles Cavendish was also one of the early experimenters with the electrical storage device, the Leyden jar, which came to England in 1746. His interest in electrical research was passed on to his son Henry who was also a prominent member of the Royal Society. [Wikipedia]
It appears that scientific investigation often required special tools to exhibit the data needed for the study. This paper, A Description of Some Thermometers for Particular Uses, by the Right Honourable the Lord Charles Cavendish, V. P. R. S., describes a thermometer that can simultaneously measure both the highest and lowest temperatures to which the thermometer has been exposed during any single time period. The paper, having been read before the Royal Society on June 30, 1757, was published in 1758 in London in Volume 50, Part 1, For the Year 1757 of the Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
The paper, which has been disbound from the Transactions, measures approximately 6 x 8 1/2 inches and contains 11 pages of text plus one fold-out plate to describe, illustrate, and discuss how the thermometer would function. The pages are tanned, but the text and illustrations are clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is good/very good.
The basic operating principles of the thermometer are described on the first page of the paper, which is included as an illustration accompanying this description. The other illustrations included with this description are the fold-out plate (with its four figures) and a typical page of text.
Lord Charles Cavendish F.R.S. (17 March 1704 – 28 April 1783) was a British nobleman and Whig politician. In 1757 the Royal Society (of which he was vice-president) awarded him the Copley Medal for his work in the development of thermometers which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures they had reached. Charles Cavendish was also one of the early experimenters with the electrical storage device, the Leyden jar, which came to England in 1746. His interest in electrical research was passed on to his son Henry who was also a prominent member of the Royal Society. [Wikipedia]
It appears that scientific investigation often required special tools to exhibit the data needed for the study. This paper, A Description of Some Thermometers for Particular Uses, by the Right Honourable the Lord Charles Cavendish, V. P. R. S., describes a thermometer that can simultaneously measure both the highest and lowest temperatures to which the thermometer has been exposed during any single time period. The paper, having been read before the Royal Society on June 30, 1757, was published in 1758 in London in Volume 50, Part 1, For the Year 1757 of the Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
The paper, which has been disbound from the Transactions, measures approximately 6 x 8 1/2 inches and contains 11 pages of text plus one fold-out plate to describe, illustrate, and discuss how the thermometer would function. The pages are tanned, but the text and illustrations are clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is good/very good.
The basic operating principles of the thermometer are described on the first page of the paper, which is included as an illustration accompanying this description. The other illustrations included with this description are the fold-out plate (with its four figures) and a typical page of text.
Lord Charles Cavendish F.R.S. (17 March 1704 – 28 April 1783) was a British nobleman and Whig politician. In 1757 the Royal Society (of which he was vice-president) awarded him the Copley Medal for his work in the development of thermometers which recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures they had reached. Charles Cavendish was also one of the early experimenters with the electrical storage device, the Leyden jar, which came to England in 1746. His interest in electrical research was passed on to his son Henry who was also a prominent member of the Royal Society. [Wikipedia]