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Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding 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/8/73

Date: 30 April 1877

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Encloses letter from James Clerk Maxwell [RR/8/72] and the associated reports [RR/8/70 and RR/8/71]. Agrees that publication in the Proceedings is satisfactory.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1878]

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RR/8/73
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30 April 1877
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Letter from William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the increase in resistance to the passage of an electric current produced on certain wires by stretching' by Herbert Tomlinson, 30 April 1877, RR/8/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_73/letter-from-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-to-george-gabriel-stokes-regarding-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 09 March 2026

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