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Referee's report by Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, on a paper 'A throw-testing machine for reversals of mean stress' by Osborne Reynolds and J H Smith

Reference number: RR/15/375

Date: 07 April 1902

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. The authors might be asked to add paragraphs comparing the minimum fracturing range of stress with the range for zero to the ordinary limit sufficiently accurately. The illustrations and curves should be reproduced.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1902].

Endorsed on verso as received 7 April 1902.

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RR/15/375
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07 April 1902
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Alexander Blackie William Kennedy

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Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, Referee's report by Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, on a paper 'A throw-testing machine for reversals of mean stress' by Osborne Reynolds and J H Smith, 07 April 1902, RR/15/375, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_15_375/referees-report-by-alexander-blackie-william-kennedy-on-a-paper-a-throw-testing-machine-for-reversals-of-mean-stress-by-osborne-reynolds-and-j-h-smith, accessed on 14 March 2026

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