Box 9
Contains 26 Results:
Memoir supplementing Bailly's Mémoire sur la meilleure manière d'éclairer pendant les nuits les rues de Paris, 1766
Physical Description: 2 leaves; 38 cm; manuscriptSummary: Entitled: "Suplément au Mémoire du S. Bailly." Accompanied by the first memoir (Lavoisier MSS. 9.23a).
Mémoire sur les matières combustibles, qui peuvent servir à éclairer pendant la nuit les rues d'une ville, 1766
Physical Description: 10 leaves; 39 cm; manuscriptSummary: Submitted for a contest sponsored by the Académie des sciences in which Bourgeois shared the prize with Bailly and Le Roy. See also the printed version (Lavoisier TP 741 B77+).
Notes describing adjustments made by Monge to apparatus used in water synthesis experiments, February 28, 1785
Physical Description: 1 leaf; 31 cm; holograph signed. Seal attached.
Notes containing geological observations on the Vexin and Beauvoisis regions, 176-?
Physical Description: 2 leaves; 19 cm; holograph. Text in pencil, last words obliterated.
Notes on laboratory experiments dealing with the synthesis of water, December 21, 1784 -January 24, 1785
Physical Description: 5 leaves; 36 cm; manuscript Summary: Accompanied by three tables of measurements (Lavoisier MSS. 9.02b-d) related to the experiments.
Notes in tabular form giving numerical data from experiments dealing with the synthesis of water, December 30, 1785 January 24, 1784
Physical Description: 3 items (4, 4, 1 leaves) ; 22-32 cm; manuscripts.Summary: Item 9.02b entitled: "Table des Capacités de la caisse A, no. 1 du coté du jardin;" 9.02c: "Table des Capacités de la Caisse B no. 2 du Coté la Cour." Accompanied by corresponding laboratory notes (Lavoisier MSS. 9.02a).
Notes on laboratory experiments dealing with the synthesis of water, February 27, 1785
Physical Description: 4 items (1, 2, 1, 1 leaves) ; 36 cm; manuscripts.Summary: With Monge's signature on item 9.03a and Berthollet's and Brisson's signatures on items 9.03c-d. items 9.03a-c are different accounts of the same experiment. Item 9.03d records results of experiments later in the day.
Notes on laboratory experiments dealing with the synthesis of water, February 27-28, 1785
Physical Description: 3 items (1, 1, 1 leaves) ; 32-35 cm; manuscripts.Summary: Item 9.04a entitled: "Caisse pour l'air dephlogistiqué;" 9.04b: "Caisse pour l'air inflammable." With the signatures of Brisson, Berthollet and Monge on items 9.04a-b.
Notes on laboratory experiments dealing with the synthesis of water, February 28, 1785
Physical Description: 2 leaves; 26 cm; holograph. Part of second leaf torn away.Summary: With notes in different hand on p. [1].
Notes in tabular form giving numerical data from experiments dealing with the synthesis of water, March 1785
Physical Description: 2 items (4, 2 leaves) ; 32 cm; manuscripts.Summary: Item 9.07a entitled: "Experience de la composition de l'eau commencée le 27 fevrier 1785." Item 9.07a 32 x 42 cm. folded to 32 cm.