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Referee's report by James Swinburne, on a paper 'The high-frequency resistance of multiply-stranded insulated wire' by G W O Howe

Reference number: RR/24/50

Date: June 1917

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Sectional Committee: Applied Sciences

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The tables are necessary for clarity. The paper does not contain much new, but the information is important to telegraph design. Refers to work by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Joseph John Thomson and Arthur Edwin Kennelly.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1917]

Endorsed on verso as received 5 June 1917.

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RR/24/50
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June 1917
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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James Swinburne, Referee's report by James Swinburne, on a paper 'The high-frequency resistance of multiply-stranded insulated wire' by G W O Howe, June 1917, RR/24/50, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_50/referees-report-by-james-swinburne-on-a-paper-the-high-frequency-resistance-of-multiply-stranded-insulated-wire-by-g-w-o-howe, accessed on 20 January 2025

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