File:Young-Thomas-Lectures1807-Plate XXX-fig442-dbl slit.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Young-Thomas-Lectures1807-Plate_XXX-fig442-dbl_slit.jpg ‎(532 × 382 pixels, file size: 48 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: Image of fig.442 from plate XXX from Thomas Young's "Lectures", publ. 1807, the text of lectures to London's Royal Institution in 1802. Shows Young's experience of the "two slit" phenomenon, which supports wave theory of light.
Date
Source

Original publication: A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts- YOUNG, Thomas

Immediate source: This jpg created by me (who releases all rights) from a jpg emailled to me from a bookseller (www.jonathanahill.com) who was selling the book. Bookseller was responding to email asking if okay to send image to Wikipedia, told that meant giving up his rights.
Author

Thomas Young

(Life time: 1773-1829)

Licensing[edit]

Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young-Thomas-Lectures1807-Plate_XXX-fig442-dbl_slit.jpg

Original upload log[edit]

The original description page was here. All following user names refer to en.wikipedia.
Date/Time Dimensions User Comment
2014-11-04 14:09 532×382× (49363 bytes) Tkbwik Uploading an old public-domain work using [[Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard|File Upload Wizard]]

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current15:21, 14 April 2015Thumbnail for version as of 15:21, 14 April 2015532 × 382 (48 KB)Arthunter (talk | contribs)Transferred from en.wikipedia

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Young-Thomas-Lectures1807-Plate_XXX-fig442-dbl_slit.jpg&oldid=522034517"