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Referee's report by Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, on a paper 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A Carus-Wilson

Reference number: RR/10/332

Date: 11 June 1890

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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' or the Proceedings. The experiments are crude and imperfect, and the reasoning defective. The paper does not have scientific value.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry, Applied Sciences

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1891]

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RR/10/332
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11 June 1890
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Alexander Blackie William Kennedy

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Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, Referee's report by Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, on a paper 'The rupture of steel by longitudinal stress' by Charles A Carus-Wilson, 11 June 1890, RR/10/332, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_332/referees-report-by-alexander-blackie-william-kennedy-on-a-paper-the-rupture-of-steel-by-longitudinal-stress-by-charles-a-carus-wilson, accessed on 16 March 2025

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