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Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The mechanical equivalent of heat' by Thomas Howell Laby and E O Hercus

Reference number: RR/35/133

Date: February 1927

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. The authors have 'taken a great deal of pains to secure accuracy in every detail of their method'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1928].

Endorsed on verso as received 22 February 1927.

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RR/35/133
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February 1927
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Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The mechanical equivalent of heat' by Thomas Howell Laby and E O Hercus, February 1927, RR/35/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_35_133/referees-report-by-hugh-longbourne-callendar-on-a-paper-the-mechanical-equivalent-of-heat-by-thomas-howell-laby-and-e-o-hercus, accessed on 16 January 2025

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