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Note by Ernest Rutherford, on his paper 'A magnetic detector of electrical waves and some of its applications'

Reference number: RR/13/108

Date: 1896

Description

Responds to the criticisms of his paper. He will modify the references and state that the equations were advanced by Maxwell and Rayleigh.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1897].

Reference number
RR/13/108
Earliest possible date
1896
Physical description
Report on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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