Paper, 'On the friction and resistance of fluids' by George Rennie
Reference number: PT/19/7
Date: 1831
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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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- 32 pages
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- Manuscript
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Manuscripts of papers published in Philosophical Transactions, 1830-1831
February 1830 - July 1831 Reference number: PT/19
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