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Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing

Reference number: RR/9/15

Date: 29 March 1882

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it isn't of 'sufficient merit'. Only the abstract needs to be printed.

Contains a handwritten report and a typed copy.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1883].

Reference number
RR/9/15
Earliest possible date
29 March 1882
Physical description
Letter on paper and typed report on paper
Page extent
21 pages
Format
Typescript
Manuscript

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William Grylls Adams

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William Grylls Adams, Referee's report by William Grylls Adams, on a paper 'On the production of transient electric currents in iron and steel conductors by twisting them when magnetised, or by magnetising them when twisted' by James Alfred Ewing, 29 March 1882, RR/9/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_15/referees-report-by-william-grylls-adams-on-a-paper-on-the-production-of-transient-electric-currents-in-iron-and-steel-conductors-by-twisting-them-when-magnetised-or-by-magnetising-them-when-twisted-by-james-alfred-ewing, accessed on 05 December 2024

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