XIII.—Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of the Conduction of Heat in Bars, and into the Conducting Power of Wrought Iron.

Abstract

1. The experiments to which I shall have to refer in this paper were all made above ten years ago. A brief report of the general results, so far as they were then obtained, was made to the British Association in 1852, at whose expense the instrumental apparatus had been provided. The causes of the delay which has occurred in the publication of the numerical results will be presently explained.