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Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram Hopkinson

Reference number: RR/20/69

Date: 04 November 1913

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The experimental method is 'most ingenious'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1914].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 November 1913.

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RR/20/69
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04 November 1913
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3 pages
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Joseph Ernest Petavel

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Joseph Ernest Petavel, Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'A method of measuring the pressure produced in the detonation of high explosives or by the impact of bullets' by Bertram Hopkinson, 04 November 1913, RR/20/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_20_69/referees-report-by-joseph-ernest-petavel-on-a-paper-a-method-of-measuring-the-pressure-produced-in-the-detonation-of-high-explosives-or-by-the-impact-of-bullets-by-bertram-hopkinson, accessed on 12 March 2026

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    This collection contains reports on scientific papers submitted for publication to the Royal Society. Started in 1832 when the system was formalised, it is a record of the origins of peer review publishing in practice.

    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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