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Illustrations for this paper have been separated from the manuscript and are found at PT/73/14/3.

Subject: Physics

Published in volume 121 of Philosophical Transactions as 'On the friction and resistance of fluids'.

Read 16 June 1831.

Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 3, 1837.

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PT/19/7
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1831
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Ink on paper
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32 pages
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Manuscript

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George Rennie

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George Rennie, Paper, 'On the friction and resistance of fluids' by George Rennie, 1831, PT/19/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_19_7/paper-on-the-friction-and-resistance-of-fluids-by-george-rennie, accessed on 12 December 2025

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