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Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'Repulsion and rotation produced alternating electric currents' by Gilbert Thomas Walker

Reference number: RR/11/213

Date: 27 January 1892

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Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper should be condensed in length.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1892].

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RR/11/213
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27 January 1892
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Report on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Davidson Niven

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William Davidson Niven, Referee's report by William Davidson Niven, on a paper 'Repulsion and rotation produced alternating electric currents' by Gilbert Thomas Walker, 27 January 1892, RR/11/213, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_213/referees-report-by-william-davidson-niven-on-a-paper-repulsion-and-rotation-produced-alternating-electric-currents-by-gilbert-thomas-walker, accessed on 21 March 2025

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