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Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook on a paper, 'A wave-length comparator for standards of length: An instrument for fine measurement in wave-lengths of light. - With an appendix on the use of wave-length rulings as defining lines on standards of length' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton

Reference number: RR/17/451

Date: July 1909

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with modifications.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1911].

Endorsed on verso as received 17 July 1909.

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Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook on a paper, 'A wave-length comparator for standards of length: An instrument for fine measurement in wave-lengths of light. - With an appendix on the use of wave-length rulings as defining lines on standards of length' by Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton, July 1909, RR/17/451, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_451/referees-report-by-richard-tetley-glazebrook-on-a-paper-a-wave-length-comparator-for-standards-of-length-an-instrument-for-fine-measurement-in-wave-lengths-of-light-with-an-appendix-on-the-use-of-wave-length-rulings-as-defining-lines-on-standards-of-length-by-alfred-edwin-howard-tutton, accessed on 11 November 2025

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