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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Boundary lubrication. - Plane surfaces and the limitations of Amontons' law' by William Bate Hardy and Ida Bircumshaw

Reference number: RR/32/77

Date: 19 February 1925

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. Pages 23 and 24 should be omitted as 'they are difficult to understand and don't seem to add anything to the work'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1925].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 February 1925.

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RR/32/77
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19 February 1925
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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3 pages
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Boundary lubrication. - Plane surfaces and the limitations of Amontons' law' by William Bate Hardy and Ida Bircumshaw, 19 February 1925, RR/32/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_77/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-the-bakerian-lecture-boundary-lubrication-plane-surfaces-and-the-limitations-of-amontons-law-by-william-bate-hardy-and-ida-bircumshaw, accessed on 10 December 2024

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