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Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The mechanism of the electric arc' by Phoebe Sarah Hertha Marks Ayrton

Reference number: RR/15/148

Date: 16 July 1901

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The facts of the paper could be communicated in a less diffuse way. Some modifications are required.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions A, 1902]

Endorsed on verso as received 17 July 1901.

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RR/15/148
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16 July 1901
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4 pages
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George Carey Foster, Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'The mechanism of the electric arc' by Phoebe Sarah Hertha Marks Ayrton, 16 July 1901, RR/15/148, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_148/referees-report-by-george-carey-foster-on-a-paper-the-mechanism-of-the-electric-arc-by-phoebe-sarah-hertha-marks-ayrton, accessed on 09 October 2024

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