Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'The value of the mechanical equivalent of heat, deduced from some experiments performed with the view of establishing the relation between the electrical and mechanical units; together with an investigation into the capacity for heat of water at different temperatures' by Ernest Howard Griffiths
Reference number: RR/11/261
Date: 31 January 1893
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Recommended for publication. The investigation is carried out with 'remarkable skill and perseverance'.
Subject: Physics
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1893].
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- 31 January 1893
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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'The value of the mechanical equivalent of heat, deduced from some experiments performed with the view of establishing the relation between the electrical and mechanical units; together with an investigation into the capacity for heat of water at different temperatures' by Ernest Howard Griffiths, 31 January 1893, RR/11/261, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_11_261/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-a-paper-the-value-of-the-mechanical-equivalent-of-heat-deduced-from-some-experiments-performed-with-the-view-of-establishing-the-relation-between-the-electrical-and-mechanical-units-together-with-an-investigation-into-the-capacity-for-heat-of-water-at-different-temperatures-by-ernest-howard-griffiths, accessed on 15 January 2025
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Date: 31st December 1893
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1893.0006
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Referees' reports: volume 11, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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