Salford, Manchester - EH hopes WW will accept his enclosed essays, and hopes it supplies some of the deficiencies adverted by WW in his preface to his Treatise on Mechanics. As Vice President of the BAAS, would WW allow him to give an abstract of his… read more
EH gives the mathematical results which arise out of his paper on impact which he is to read at the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [see EH to WW, 2 June 1832]: 'These deductions, with a formula comparing the deflections with the velocities of impact, and an… read more
Pendleton, Manchester - Thanks WW for the present of his work and on looking over his paper on impact, EH offers a further explanation concerning his method used 'in seeking by an approximate mode for the inertia of the bar'. He is trying to find a near… read more
Salford Street, Manchester - Since WW has expressed a desire to publish his paper on impact [see EH to WW, 7 Sept. 1833] in the next volume of the BAAS, EH would like to render it as worthy of the honour as he can: 'Before I sent the paper to Edinburgh,… read more
Salford, Manchester - Could WW give his opinion concerning the mathematical solution to a problem he is to present at Dublin. The problem concerns a perforated ball suspended from a wire, with another ball slipping unresisted down the wire causing it to… read more
Salford, Manchester - Encloses his paper for a final reading before it is printed. The paper is a combination of the one he read at the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [see EH to WW, 28 Feb. 1835] and later at Dublin on the subject of vertical impacts. If… read more
Salford, Manchester - Although EH cannot attend the BAAS meeting at Liverpool due to illness, he would like to introduce WW to William Fairbairn - 'the engineer to whose liberal views I am so much indebted - and whose manufactory, while it is supplying… read more