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Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset

Reference number: RR/10/319

Date: 13 February 1890

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1890]

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RR/10/319
Earliest possible date
13 February 1890
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the extension and flexure of cylindrical and spherical thin elastic shells' by Alfred Barnard Basset, 13 February 1890, RR/10/319, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_319/referees-report-by-william-thomson-1st-baron-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-the-extension-and-flexure-of-cylindrical-and-spherical-thin-elastic-shells-by-alfred-barnard-basset, accessed on 23 March 2025

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