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Letter from Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the relation between the thickness and the surface tension of liquid films' by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rucker to the Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/9/391

Date: 24 July 1886

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He met with one of the authors of the paper and expressed to him the difficulties he found with the paper, but he 'could not get much out of him in answer''. He is sailing to America in a few days and might 'pay a visit to Professor Langley' in New York.

Subject: Physics

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1886].

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RR/9/391
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24 July 1886
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Letter on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Arthur Schuster

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Arthur Schuster, Letter from Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'On the relation between the thickness and the surface tension of liquid films' by Arnold William Reinold and Arthur William Rucker to the Secretary of the Royal Society, 24 July 1886, RR/9/391, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_391/letter-from-arthur-schuster-on-a-paper-on-the-relation-between-the-thickness-and-the-surface-tension-of-liquid-films-by-arnold-william-reinold-and-arthur-william-rucker-to-the-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 12 February 2025

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