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Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the convection of heat from small cylinders in a stream of fluid: Determination of the convection constants of small platinum wires with applications to hot-wire anemometry' by Louis Vessot King

Reference number: RR/21/103

Date: June 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Assumes the author will correct the small mathematical errors in the final proof. The second part could be reduced.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1914]

Endorsed on verso as received 15 June 1914.

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RR/21/103
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June 1914
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2 pages
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Charles Niven, Referee's report by Charles Niven, on a paper 'On the convection of heat from small cylinders in a stream of fluid: Determination of the convection constants of small platinum wires with applications to hot-wire anemometry' by Louis Vessot King, June 1914, RR/21/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_103/referees-report-by-charles-niven-on-a-paper-on-the-convection-of-heat-from-small-cylinders-in-a-stream-of-fluid-determination-of-the-convection-constants-of-small-platinum-wires-with-applications-to-hot-wire-anemometry-by-louis-vessot-king, accessed on 17 March 2025

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