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Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Stress and other effects produced in resin and in a viscid compound of resin and oil by electrification' by Joseph Wilson Swan

Reference number: RR/13/275

Date: 29 May 1897

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Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The interest in the paper lies mainly in the figures. Some of them should be reduced to about a third of their current size and the rest should be published in their current size. The author is partner in a firm which makes process-blocks so perhaps he could present these blocks himself.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1897].

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RR/13/275
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29 May 1897
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Referee's report by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, on a paper 'Stress and other effects produced in resin and in a viscid compound of resin and oil by electrification' by Joseph Wilson Swan, 29 May 1897, RR/13/275, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_13_275/referees-report-by-silvanus-phillips-thompson-on-a-paper-stress-and-other-effects-produced-in-resin-and-in-a-viscid-compound-of-resin-and-oil-by-electrification-by-joseph-wilson-swan, accessed on 04 December 2024

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