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Letter from George Carey Foster, 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 to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/9/18

Date: 20 June 1882

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Confirms that his initial recommendation to the Philosophical Transactions was a mistake. It 'contains nothing but what is suitable for publication in the Proceedings'. A section of the paper should be omitted.

Subject: Physics

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

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RR/9/18
Earliest possible date
20 June 1882
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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George Carey Foster

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George Carey Foster, Letter from George Carey Foster, 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 to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 20 June 1882, RR/9/18, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_18/letter-from-george-carey-foster-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-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 21 January 2025

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