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Referee's report by Osborne Reynolds, 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/9/310

Date: 25 July 1884

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author should add results that have been obtained with his machine, as the value of the paper depends 'entirely on the question of accuracy'.

Subject: Mathematics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1885].

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RR/9/310
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25 July 1884
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Osborne Reynolds

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Osborne Reynolds, Referee's report by Osborne Reynolds, 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, 25 July 1884, RR/9/310, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_310/referees-report-by-osborne-reynolds-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 10 December 2024

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