Box 9
Contains 26 Results:
Notes and calculations on laboratory experiments dealing with the composition of nitric acid, November 1785
Physical Description: 4 items (1, 1, 1, 2 leaves) ; 26 cm; holographs.
Report on a chemical analysis submitted by Fourcroy and de La Porte on the waters of Enghein, January 19, 1788
Physical Description: 2 leaves; 32 cm; manuscript signed.
Mémoire sur la meilleure maniere declairer pendant les nuits les rües de Paris, 1766
Physical Description: 6 leaves; 38 cm; manuscript Summary: Submitted for a contest sponsored by the Académie des sciences in which Bailly shared the prize with Bourgeois and Le Roy. Accompanied by a supplement to the "Mémoire (Lavoisier MSS. 9.23b).
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.