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Hydrodynamics

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Canals, Sluices, c1780-c1808

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/22
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on hydroengineering.

Dates: c1780-c1808

Hydraulics, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/5
Scope and Contents

Volume contains lectures in hydraulics, with diagrams of such things as pistons, undulation, and the Venturi effect. Some chapter headings are in Cyrillic cursive.

Dates: c1780-c1802

Hydrostatics, Specific Gravity, c1780-c1803

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Identifier: Coll-204/11
Scope and Contents Unnumbered manuscript notes and letters, with tables and sketches on water moving as a mass, the construction of hydraulic machinery, salts and specific gravity, and the stability of ships, and a printed volume of James Brown's 1785 booklet on "Directions for Proving Any Kind of Spirits, or Strong Waters, by Glass Bubbles". Interesting illustrations include a cutaway drawing of a piston, ca. page 11; cutaway of an oil lamp, ca. page 50; conjectural drawing of a pedestrian wheel for fording...
Dates: c1780-c1803

Impulsion, Corpuscular Forces, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/6
Scope and Contents

Volume contains lectures in statics and fluid dynamics. Included is a note on what happens upon mixing particular chemicals. A few of the headings are in Russian.

Dates: c1780-c1802

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 2, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/2
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785

Lectures in Natural Philosophy, volume 3, 1785

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Identifier: Coll1371/3
Scope and Contents

Notes of lectures in Natural Philosophy by Professor Robison taken down by T.C. Hope in 1785.

Dates: 1785