Description and use of a thermometer for measuring the higher degrees of heat

Made:
1784
maker:
Josiah Wedgwood

Description and use of a thermometer for measuring the higher degrees of heat, from a red heat up to the strongest that vessels made of clay can support / Josiah Wedgwood. [Published by Joseph Cooper, London, 1784, 26p. 'Extracted from a Paper communicated by him [Wedgwood] to the Royal Society May 9th, 1782, and published in Vol.LXXII of the Philosophical Transactions. On ScM neg. 705/67. Associated with inv. no. 1927-1812, a Wedgwood pyrometer etc. in the George III collection]

Details

Category:
Archive
Object Number:
1997-349
Measurements:
: 155 x 85 mm
type:
offprint
credit:
King.s College, London