Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by electric sparks' by Edward Taylor Jones, J D Morgan and R V Wheeler
Reference number: RR/26/71
Date: June 1921

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Sectional Committee: Physics
Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the paper should be reduced. Considers the theoretical part not new and the numerical part only of interest for practical applications. Assumes Dugald Clerk 'is of a contrary opinion, and on such a question I should not wish to contradict him'.
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Endorsed on verso as received 8 June 1921.
- Reference number
- RR/26/71
- Earliest possible date
- June 1921
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- Standardised form (type D)
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- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Referee's report by Frederick Alexander Lindemann, Viscount Cherwell, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by electric sparks' by Edward Taylor Jones, J D Morgan and R V Wheeler, June 1921, RR/26/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_26_71/referees-report-by-frederick-alexander-lindemann-viscount-cherwell-on-a-paper-the-ignition-of-gases-by-electric-sparks-by-edward-taylor-jones-j-d-morgan-and-r-v-wheeler, accessed on 10 February 2025
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Referees' reports on scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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Referees' reports: volume 26, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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