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Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper may be published in the Proceedings as experiments of a suggestive character. The author does not fully clarify the nature of 'Young's modules'.

Subject: Physics / Chemistry / Applied sciences

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1894]

Reference number
RR/12/252
Earliest possible date
11 July 1894
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

William Edward Ayrton

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William Edward Ayrton, Referee's report by William Edward Ayrton, on a paper 'The effect of mechanical stress and of magnetisation on the physical properties of alloys of iron and nickel and of manganese steel' by Herbert Tomlinson, 11 July 1894, RR/12/252, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_252/referees-report-by-william-edward-ayrton-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-mechanical-stress-and-of-magnetisation-on-the-physical-properties-of-alloys-of-iron-and-nickel-and-of-manganese-steel-by-herbert-tomlinson, accessed on 12 December 2025

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