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Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On an experimental method for the solution of plane stress problems' by Letitia Chitty and Alfred John Sutton Pippard

Reference number: RR/59/25

Date: May 1936

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Sectional Committee: Engineering Sciences

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests correcting the spelling of 'disc' and clarifying the use of the term 'fringed'. Suggests omitting some of the diagrams.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 5 May 1936.

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RR/59/25
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May 1936
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Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On an experimental method for the solution of plane stress problems' by Letitia Chitty and Alfred John Sutton Pippard, May 1936, RR/59/25, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_59_25/referees-report-by-geoffrey-ingram-taylor-on-a-paper-on-an-experimental-method-for-the-solution-of-plane-stress-problems-by-letitia-chitty-and-alfred-john-sutton-pippard, accessed on 16 January 2025

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