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Letter from Charles William Siemens, on his paper 'The Bakerian lecture on the increase of electrical resistance in conductors with rise of temperature, and its application to the measure of ordinary and furnace temperatures; also on a simple method of measuring electrical resistances' to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/7/208

Date: 18 June 1872

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He's glad to hear that the referees have recommended that certain parts of his paper should be published in Philosophical Transactions.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1870].

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RR/7/208
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18 June 1872
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Letter from Charles William Siemens, on his paper 'The Bakerian lecture on the increase of electrical resistance in conductors with rise of temperature, and its application to the measure of ordinary and furnace temperatures; also on a simple method of measuring electrical resistances' to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 18 June 1872, RR/7/208, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_208/letter-from-charles-william-siemens-on-his-paper-the-bakerian-lecture-on-the-increase-of-electrical-resistance-in-conductors-with-rise-of-temperature-and-its-application-to-the-measure-of-ordinary-and-furnace-temperatures-also-on-a-simple-method-of-measuring-electrical-resistances-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 24 January 2025

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