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Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'On the cause and theoretic value of the resistance of flexure in beams' by William Henry Barlow

Reference number: RR/7/8

Date: 08 June 1873

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author is 'ignorant' of the terms and principles of mathematical theory of elasticity. It would not be 'proper' to publish the paper either in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1869].

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RR/7/8
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08 June 1873
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Letter on paper
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8 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin on a paper 'On the cause and theoretic value of the resistance of flexure in beams' by William Henry Barlow, 08 June 1873, RR/7/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_8/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-the-cause-and-theoretic-value-of-the-resistance-of-flexure-in-beams-by-william-henry-barlow, accessed on 18 April 2025

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