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Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Further history of a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and Alfred John Dawson

Reference number: RR/47/131

Date: February 1932

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1933].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 February 1932.

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RR/47/131
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February 1932
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Joseph Ernest Petavel, Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Further history of a quartz thread gravity balance' by Richard Threlfall and Alfred John Dawson, February 1932, RR/47/131, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_47_131/referees-report-by-joseph-ernest-petavel-on-a-paper-further-history-of-a-quartz-thread-gravity-balance-by-richard-threlfall-and-alfred-john-dawson, accessed on 21 March 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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