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Letter, 'Note on a paper entitled "On a new form of stereoscope"' from A Stroh to the Secretary of the Royal Society [John William Strutt]

Reference number: PP/9/7

Date: 27 September 1886

Description

Stroh presents an addendum to his paper on a new form of stereoscope (see PP/8/20), noting that a 'paper [describing] the essential points of the apparatus' had been read to the Dublin Royal Society on 20 January 1879, seven years before the presentation of Stroh's paper to the Royal Society.

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physics

Received 28 September 1886. Communicated by Lord Rayleigh [Strutt].

Written by Stroh at 98 Haverstock Hill [London].

A version of this paper was published in volume 41 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on a paper entitled "On a new form of stereoscope"'.

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PP/9/7
Earliest possible date
27 September 1886
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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1 page
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Manuscript

Creator name

A Stroh

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A Stroh, Letter, 'Note on a paper entitled "On a new form of stereoscope"' from A Stroh to the Secretary of the Royal Society [John William Strutt], 27 September 1886, PP/9/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_9_7/letter-note-on-a-paper-entitled-on-a-new-form-of-stereoscope-from-a-stroh-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society-john-william-strutt, accessed on 17 January 2025

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