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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The elastic range of friction' by J S Rankin

Reference number: RR/32/109

Date: 04 October 1925

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The results are so inconclusive that the referee 'cannot understand what he thinks he has proved'. A summary should have been added.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 Otober 1925.

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RR/32/109
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04 October 1925
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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6 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The elastic range of friction' by J S Rankin, 04 October 1925, RR/32/109, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_109/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-the-elastic-range-of-friction-by-j-s-rankin, accessed on 17 January 2025

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