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Letter from Henry Frederick Baker, on a paper 'The minimum weight design of structural frames' by J Foulkes, to [the Royal Society]

Reference number: RR/79/199

Date: 04 August 1953

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Paper reference code: A182

Baker believes the paper may have been sent to him by mistake. Asks if the Society meant to send it to J F [John Fleetwood] Baker at the Engineering Laboratory in Cambridge instead.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1954].

Received 5 August 1953

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RR/79/199
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04 August 1953
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Henry Frederick Baker

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Henry Frederick Baker, Letter from Henry Frederick Baker, on a paper 'The minimum weight design of structural frames' by J Foulkes, to [the Royal Society], 04 August 1953, RR/79/199, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_79_199/letter-from-henry-frederick-baker-on-a-paper-the-minimum-weight-design-of-structural-frames-by-j-foulkes-to-the-royal-society, accessed on 14 June 2026

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