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Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces I - Kinetic friction' by Frank Philip Bowden and W G Beare

Reference number: RR/52/70

Date: August 1934

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Sectional committee: Engineering sciences

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, in full. It could be improved by better descriptions of tables and figures. This would make the paper more readable. It contains 'good and careful work'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1935].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 August 1934.

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RR/52/70
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August 1934
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William Henry Bragg, Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces I - Kinetic friction' by Frank Philip Bowden and W G Beare, August 1934, RR/52/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_52_70/referees-report-by-william-henry-bragg-on-a-paper-physical-properties-of-surfaces-i-kinetic-friction-by-frank-philip-bowden-and-w-g-beare, accessed on 09 December 2024

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