Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'New ideas on electricity, applied to the invention of an earthquake guard' by Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
Reference number: RR/1/160
Date: 04 May 1848
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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as the style of the paper is 'somewhat redundant and pompus'. States later in the report that he has received a letter from Mancini, 'who entreats a mild judgement of his paper it it were but in consideration of him being only twenty years of age'.
Subject: Physics
[Not published].
- Reference number
- RR/1/160
- Earliest possible date
- 04 May 1848
- Physical description
- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Henry Smyth, Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'New ideas on electricity, applied to the invention of an earthquake guard' by Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 04 May 1848, RR/1/160, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_1_160/referees-report-by-william-henry-smyth-on-a-paper-new-ideas-on-electricity-applied-to-the-invention-of-an-earthquake-guard-by-pasquale-stanislao-mancini, accessed on 17 April 2025
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