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Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Measurements of specific inductive capacity of dielectrics, in the physical laboratory of the University of Glasgow' by John C Gibson and Thomas Barclay

Reference number: RR/7/95

Date: 28 September 1871

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The value of the paper is based on 'the special experimental results recorded in it' and the fact that it contains a 'full account of a method of measuring induction capacity'.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1871].

Reference number
RR/7/95
Earliest possible date
28 September 1871
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Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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George Carey Foster

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George Carey Foster, Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Measurements of specific inductive capacity of dielectrics, in the physical laboratory of the University of Glasgow' by John C Gibson and Thomas Barclay, 28 September 1871, RR/7/95, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_95/referees-report-by-george-carey-foster-on-a-paper-measurements-of-specific-inductive-capacity-of-dielectrics-in-the-physical-laboratory-of-the-university-of-glasgow-by-john-c-gibson-and-thomas-barclay, accessed on 12 December 2024

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