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Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'The theory of continuous calculating machines and of a mechanism of this class on a new principle' by Henry Selby Hele Shaw

Reference number: RR/9/309

Date: 22 January 1885

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The referee has not had much time to fully analyse it, but it seems 'very carefully done'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1885].

Reference number
RR/9/309
Earliest possible date
22 January 1885
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
Typescript

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William Thomson

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William Thomson, Referee's report by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, on a paper 'The theory of continuous calculating machines and of a mechanism of this class on a new principle' by Henry Selby Hele Shaw, 22 January 1885, RR/9/309, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_309/referees-report-by-william-thomson-lord-kelvin-on-a-paper-the-theory-of-continuous-calculating-machines-and-of-a-mechanism-of-this-class-on-a-new-principle-by-henry-selby-hele-shaw, accessed on 16 September 2024

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