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Paper, 'A determination of the differences in gravity between the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington [England], the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa [Canada] and the National Bureau of Standards, Washington [USA]' by G D Garland and Alan Hugh-Cook

Reference number: AP/81/22

Date: 1954

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The authors state: 'The sequence of observations to be discussed in this paper may be considered as forming three stages: a closed circuit from Ottawa to Teddington and back in November 1953, a similar circuit from Ottawa to Washington in January 1954, and finally those observations made after the return of the apparatus to England in February 1954.'

Note reads 'The TS of the published paper is included in these papers as well as the unpublished tables'.

Subject: Physics

A version of this paper was published in volume 229 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A as 'A determination of the differences in gravity between the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, and the National Bureau of Standards, Washington'.

Reference number
AP/81/22
Earliest possible date
1954
Physical description
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
Page extent
26 pages
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Typescript

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Alan Hugh Cook

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G D Garland

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Alan Hugh Cook, G D Garland, Paper, 'A determination of the differences in gravity between the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington [England], the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa [Canada] and the National Bureau of Standards, Washington [USA]' by G D Garland and Alan Hugh-Cook, 1954, AP/81/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_81_22/paper-a-determination-of-the-differences-in-gravity-between-the-national-physical-laboratory-teddington-england-the-dominion-observatory-ottawa-canada-and-the-national-bureau-of-standards-washington-usa-by-g-d-garland-and-alan-hugh-cook, accessed on 13 July 2026

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