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Referee's report by Alfred Harker, on a paper 'On the specific heat of steam at atmospheric pressure between 104°C and 115°C' by J H Brinkworth and Hugh Longbourne Callendar

Reference number: RR/22/27

Date: May 1915

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as there is a 'startlingly high accuracy' in the experiment.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1915].

Endorsed on verso as received 10 May 1915.

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RR/22/27
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May 1915
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2 pages
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Alfred Harker, Referee's report by Alfred Harker, on a paper 'On the specific heat of steam at atmospheric pressure between 104°C and 115°C' by J H Brinkworth and Hugh Longbourne Callendar, May 1915, RR/22/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_22_27/referees-report-by-alfred-harker-on-a-paper-on-the-specific-heat-of-steam-at-atmospheric-pressure-between-104c-and-115c-by-j-h-brinkworth-and-hugh-longbourne-callendar, accessed on 03 December 2024

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