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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The effect of gases, vapours and liquids on the limiting friction between solid surfaces' by J M Macaulay

Reference number: RR/32/93

Date: October 1925

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The author has not read the works of Hardy on the subject. He is 'not impressed by the author's theories about his results' and he 'doesn't express himself very clearly'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1922].

Endorsed on verso as received 6 October 1925.

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RR/32/93
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October 1925
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The effect of gases, vapours and liquids on the limiting friction between solid surfaces' by J M Macaulay, October 1925, RR/32/93, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_93/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-the-effect-of-gases-vapours-and-liquids-on-the-limiting-friction-between-solid-surfaces-by-j-m-macaulay, accessed on 20 September 2024

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