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Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Electrical interference Phenomena somewhat analogous to Newton’s rings, but exhibited by waves along wires' by Edwin Henry Barton

Reference number: RR/12/49

Date: 11 March 1894

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The paper is a detailed development on an earlier paper by the same author, published in the Proceedings. Refers to work by Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes, Josef Karl Franz Otto Geitler, Ritter von Armingen and George Udny Yule.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1895]

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RR/12/49
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11 March 1894
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Oliver Joseph Lodge, Referee's report by Oliver Joseph Lodge, on a paper 'Electrical interference Phenomena somewhat analogous to Newton’s rings, but exhibited by waves along wires' by Edwin Henry Barton, 11 March 1894, RR/12/49, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_12_49/referees-report-by-oliver-joseph-lodge-on-a-paper-electrical-interference-phenomena-somewhat-analogous-to-newtons-rings-but-exhibited-by-waves-along-wires-by-edwin-henry-barton, accessed on 08 May 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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