Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson
Reference number: RR/8/71
Date: 1877
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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. The author is the first to tackle the subject since the referee's own researches, which should be referred to in the current paper. Suggests the author continue his investigations, which have begun with much promise.
Subject: Physics and Chemistry
[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878]
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- RR/8/71
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- 1877
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- Letter on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, on a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson, 1877, RR/8/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_71/referees-report-by-william-thomson-1st-baron-kelvin-on-a-paper-on-the-increase-in-resistance-to-the-passage-of-an-electric-current-produced-on-certain-wires-by-stretching-by-herbert-tomlinson, accessed on 08 March 2026
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Date: 31st December 1878
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1877.0061
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Referees' reports: volume 8, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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